The villa is built on a large residential plot and accommodates four buildings. From the beginning, among all the dry precautions, Paulo Henrique Paranhos tried to avoid the residential area of the future being arranged as a combination of four houses separated by streets and sidewalks, much like the type of restricted land in a large Brazilian city. In this way, the urbanism created is defined not only by streets and sidewalks, but also by large areas of greenery and sidewalks for use by pedestrians, wheelchair users, and children on the plaza.

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Greening reinforces the complex relationship between architecture and landscape and, more importantly, it increases the scale of existing greening through the structural elements to be implemented. In the same direction, in this dwelling, the bulge of the building volume is avoided, so even a two-story house, the bottom floor is surrounded by loose concrete elements, such as a stone wall in the border greening, supporting a small volume of white brick stone. This volume on the upper level is a box of opaque walls, used as a shading device or perforated sheet furniture of the same color. In addition to private rooms, all four suites offer floor-to-ceiling views of the surrounding green preserve, adjacent land, and the entire Canjerana Stream Preserve.

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The structure of the whole house is made of reinforced concrete, solid boards or mixed ceramic elements. To emphasize the lightness of the upper volume relative to the elements of the bottom, Paulo Henrique Paranhos created some cantilevers at the ends and fixed the gaps with transparent glass in the opening between the floors. The end result gives the lower and upper levels greater autonomy and reaffirms the expected lightness of the entire work.
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