{"id":138258,"date":"2023-07-09T17:00:42","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T10:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-sustainable-house-built-to-blend-into-the-brazilian-jungle\/"},"modified":"2023-07-09T17:18:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T10:18:44","slug":"a-sustainable-house-built-to-blend-into-the-brazilian-jungle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-sustainable-house-built-to-blend-into-the-brazilian-jungle\/","title":{"rendered":"A sustainable house built to blend into the Brazilian jungle"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIt began as a garden in the mountains, but this artists\u2019 home evolved into a retreat designed to disappear from view, hidden by plantsThe Villa Manda\u00e7aia project has changed dramatically over time. It began as a vegetable garden, created for the hundreds of plant species that the artist Jo\u00e3o Machado \u2013 a botanist in his spare time \u2013 used to collect as a hobby. Jo\u00e3o, who is also the son of the famous Brazilian painter Juarez Machado, grew up amid the canvases and brushes of his father\u2019s workshop in Paris and in the lavender and sunflower fields of southern France. During other vacations, he would visit Brazil and, eventually, decided to buy a piece of land in the mountains and establish a garden with more than 400 of the plant species he\u2019d collected from around the world.When he found this sunny piece of land, bisected by a river, at an altitude of more than 1,000m in Visconde de Mau\u00e1, a village in the Serra da Mantiqueira \u2013 between Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 he wasted no time: this was the ideal place to put his dream of seeing his garden bloom into practice. \u201cI started by spreading the seedlings and positioning my sculptures, designing an organic path,\u201d he says. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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