Embaúba House is a project that represents our greatest pursuit in the last two years. Humans have ended up prioritizing their time to the maximum in a quality of life combined with the rhythm of work. In this way, the home office on many occasions has come across the countryside, coastal, and forest landscapes, where each individual has adapted to a practically introspective period, not selfish, but taking care of themselves.The urban exodus in search of forests, the smell of rain, breaks in daily life, in places detached from the gray urban walls.
「恩巴烏巴」住宅是一個具有代表性的專案，代表了我們在過去兩年裡最重大的追求。人們將時間和精力，優先投入在工作節奏和生活品質中，家庭辦公室在許多情況下已經跨越到鄉村、海岸和森林景觀中，且習慣生活處於一個更加內觀的狀態，這不是自私，而是在照顧和修復自己。人們渴望尋求森林、雨的氣味、日常生活中的休息時間，選擇遠離灰色城市牆壁，因此形成城市人口外流。
疫情封鎖期間，這儼然已是充滿教益和成熟的全景，然而現在的我們，實際上已經回到了「正常」的節奏。汽車交通充斥著城市中心，旅行和公共交通加速了步伐持續運行。但經歷了這場疫情所得到的改變，即使只是些微，我們也學會了珍惜寶貴的「時間」資源。人們生活中的細節已被悄悄改變，身體會分析自己的缺陷與不足，像是缺乏休息、間隔，以及更多新鮮乾淨的空氣呼吸，這些忙碌節奏和高壓都深深影響著健康。
This has been a panorama of teachings and maturing.Today we are practically back to the "normal" rhythm. Automotive traffic flooding urban centers, trips, and public transportation at an accelerated pace. But today we stop and, even in small doses, we have learned to value our most precious asset, time.The details of our lives have been meticulously altered as our bodies analyze our deficiencies.The lack of breaks, intervals, and more breaths of fresh and clean air.
這間房子象徵了對自己生活的重新定義，強調了我們的優先順序、健康，以及受到植被環繞及擁抱環境的尋求，這是對靈魂尋求內在健康平衡的日常維護。「恩巴烏巴」（Embaúba）這個名字源自於一種巴西本土樹木，除了具有藥用價值的特性外，它在遭受砍伐或正在恢復的地區很常見，而它的快速生長有助於整個生態系統的發展。
This house represents a bit of the redefinition of our own lives, establishing our priorities, our health, and our search for environments surrounded and embraced by vegetation. A daily maintenance of the soul. The name "Embaúba" derives from a native Brazilian tree. Besides having medicinal properties, it is common in regions that have suffered deforestation or are in recovery. Its accelerated growth helps the entire biome.
正如這棵樹平衡了森林，將一個衰退老化的區域轉化為旺盛具生命力，在這場疫情過後，人們開始意識到在面對挑戰和逆境時的自我修復、成長和強化，重建缺陷和脆弱的這個環節，都是為了更好地保護我們的未來，創造一個更穩定、可持續的生活。
Just as this tree balances the forest and turns a degraded area into life, we people have learned to take better care of ourselves, rebuilding the deficient and fragile points in recent times, mainly to better preserve our future.
Design Studio · Photographer | Lucas Takaoka @lucastakaoka.arq