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Steel house by Bauen was assembled in seven days on remote mountain site in Paraguay

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Cloud House by Bauen

Paraguayan architecture office Bauen has completed a house in the forests of Guaira, which cantilevers off three concrete walls to project over the site's steep and lush landscape.

Casa Himmel, or Cloud House, was designed for a Paraguayan couple to settle down in for their retirement.

Casa Himmel by BauenCasa Himmel is situated on a remote mountain site

After identifying a steep and isolated site in the Guaira region, roughly 200 kilometres from the capital city Asunción, they enlisted local architects Bauen with the brief that the home should be as light on the landscape as possible.

"The clients found the ideal spot in a remote region, in which the main character would not be the architecture but the landscape itself," said Bauen's founder Aldo Cristaldo Kegler. "Keeping in mind these premises, 90 per cent of the house was already solved."

Cloud House by BauenThe building's steel structure cantilevers from three concrete walls

Three concrete walls are set into the slope, creating a platform from which steel-and-glass structure cantilevers.

Because of the difficult access to the site, Bauen chose to use shorter steel sections that would be easier to transport.

Steel-and-glass structure in ParaguayA portion of the home projects dramatically towards the landscape

According to the architects, the primary structure was manufactured in 60 days, and assembled in only seven using bolted connections.

"The structural spans become the windows and are simply closed with glass," explained Kegler. "Every square metre of the project allows the striking surrounding view to pass through."

Decking running around the houseLarge windows are fitted between the steel elements

Roughly cross-shaped in plan, the interior living spaces are delineated by only a few walls.

Running perpendicular to the slope, the home's open-concept kitchen, living and dining room welcome visitors as soon as they enter through the front door.

On either side of this volume are the private areas: the owner's living quarters to one side, and a home gym on the other.

At the highest point of the building, a covered terrace looks out over the mountainous landscape beyond. An exterior staircase leads up to a secondary roof terrace that is open to the elements.

Bauen added minimal interiors to the houseThe home has minimal interiors

Bauen's interiors were completed in a minimal palette of reflective white surfaces, with little furniture or other elements to distract from the views.

"Having the advantage of a 360-degree view of the mountain range, designing the house was not an arduous task," Kegler said.

Casa Himmel by BauenRooms open onto balconies that surround the house

Other projects in Paraguay include a home with a mechanically operable roof that tilts open like the lid of a box, by Javier Corvalán, and a synagogue in Asunción that was completed out of board-marked concrete and weathering steel.

The photography is byFederico Cairoli.

Project credits:

Lead architect: Aldo Cristaldo Kegler

Other participants: Dina Agüero, Luz Serena Hiebl, Saúl Acosta, Fátima Estigarribia

Structure calculations: Alfredo Espínola

Structural assembly: Metales Procesados

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Steel house by Bauen was assembled in seven days on remote mountain site in Paraguay

Paraguayan architecture office Bauen has completed a house in the forests of Guaira, which cantilevers off three concrete walls over the lush terrain.

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Leaked EU anti-deforestation law omits fragile grasslands and wetlands

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Campaigners say draft regulation contains many loopholes, including exclusion of Cerrado and Pantanal.

The fragile Cerrado grasslands and the Pantanal wetlands, both under threat from soy and beef exploitation, have been excluded from a European Union draft anti-deforestation law, campaigners have said, and there are many other concerning loopholes. (...)

The long-awaited draft regulation, expected to be published in December, will be limited to controlling EU imports of beef, palm oil, soy, wood, cocoa and coffee, according to a report seen by the Guardian. (...)

Campaigners said the EU risks getting it wrong. They criticised the exclusion from the proposals of rubber, leather, maize and other kinds of meat, linking pigs and chickens to “embedded deforestation” through the use of soy as animal feed. (...)

The Together4Forests campaign called for the regulation to ensure protection for all kinds of ecosystems, not only forests. (...)

Other ecosystems will be excluded, even though the EU document concedes that stricter rules to protect the Amazon rainforest “have already been shown to accelerate conversion of Cerrado savannah and Pantanal wetlands for agricultural production”. It also notes that the Cerrado is “a critical region for storing carbon”, a source of water, vegetation and abundant plant life, but concludes that including such ecosystems would make it more difficult to monitor forests. (...)

The document also reveals that the law “will not specifically target the financial sector”, a blow to campaigners who argued that European banks play a role in fuelling deforestation through their lending. (...)

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Photo of otter in Pantanal
An endangered giant otter in a lagoon in western Pantanal – which is one of the world’s largest freshwater wetlands but is not covered by the draft law. Photograph: Nature Picture Library/Alamy.

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Alors que la Commission européenne semble déterminée à sauver le projet d’accord entre Union européenne et pays du Mercosur, 450 organisations de la société civile des deux côtés de l’Atlantique s’allient pour renforcer la mobilisation citoyenne. https://www.bastamag.net/Des-centaines-d-organisations-s-unissent-contre-un-accord-commercial-obsolete-Union-europeenne-Mercosur

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Des centaines d'organisations s'unissent contre un accord commercial obsolète

Alors que la Commission européenne semble déterminée à sauver le projet d'accord entre Union européenne et pays du Mercosur, 450 organisations de la société civile des deux côtés de l'Atlantique s'allient pour (...)

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