Brazil's landmass covers a wide climate range: São Paulo sits at altitude with a mild, temperate-leaning climate and a dense high-rise urban fabric, while the coastline from Rio de Janeiro through Bahia is tropical, humid and driven by ocean breeze — much closer to the conditions the studio already builds in. Coastal luxury residential work in Brazil (Rio's Zona Sul, Búzios, Trancoso, Angra dos Reis) tends to prioritize cross-ventilation, deep verandas and a strong connection to garden or beach, which lines up closely with tropical Indonesian design logic. Inland urban work, by contrast, behaves more like the Shanghai or Buenos Aires condition: envelope performance and interior planning inside existing towers.
The studio has not completed a project in Brazil. Its built portfolio in Bali applies directly to the coastal condition described above — deep overhangs, natural cross-ventilation and a landscape-led plan are core habits from Indonesian residential work, and Italian architectural training contributes the proportion and material discipline. The remote-led process the studio already uses for international clients — video walkthroughs, periodic site visits, drawings coordinated across time zones — extends naturally to a Brazilian collaboration. A first Brazilian project would work with a locally registered architect (Brazil requires a CAU-registered professional of record, through the Conselho de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, for any permitted project) who would handle code compliance, structural coordination and municipal approval while the studio leads design.
Has the studio built anything in Brazil?
Not yet. Completed work is in Bali and Indonesia, with additional built projects in the Caribbean and Latin America outside Brazil.
Would a project be based on the coast or in a city like São Paulo?
Either is possible, but the studio's tropical design experience is more directly applicable to coastal, warm-climate sites than to São Paulo's cooler, dense urban core.
Who handles local permitting and code compliance?
A CAU-registered Brazilian architect of record, working alongside the studio through the design and construction-documentation phases.
A coastal residential or hospitality project in Brazil would pair the studio's tropical design background with a locally registered architect for permitting — reach out to discuss a specific site. The same coastal-tropical logic shows up in the studio's approach to Tulum and to Argentina's Patagonian and coastal contrasts.