This Amazon House Zigzags Through the Forest

Cajuí House, designed by Laurent Troost Architectures in Manaus, Brazil, is not a tropical house that simply looks at the forest. It is shaped by it. Set beside an environmental protection area, the house was designed around existing trees, natural topography, shade, wind, and the intense equatorial climate of the Amazon. Instead of clearing the site, the architecture bends, shifts, and adjusts itself to the vegetation. Its zigzag layout preserves the trees, creates cross views between garden and forest, and organizes a sequence of spaces that move from the street to the patio, the social areas, the veranda, the forest, and the lake. Concrete, brick, wood, aluminum frames, open wooden brise panels, an elevated structure, rainwater collection, and a large inclined roof all work together to create a house that responds to heat, humidity, rain, and natural ventilation. This is a house about living with the Amazon. Not by closing itself off. But by opening carefully, creating shade, letting air move through, and allowing the architecture to breathe with the forest. Project data Architects: Laurent Troost Architectures Landscape Architects: Hana Eto Gall Landscape Location: Manaus, Amazonas, BraZil Project Year: 2025 Building Area: 275 m2 Photographs: Susan Valentim #Architecture #HouseDesign #AmazonHouse #BrazilianArchitecture #TropicalHouse #ModernHouse #ForestHouse #Manaus #CajuiHouse #LaurentTroost #SustainableArchitecture #Mirageon