Olympic tour: Wallpaper* steps inside Brazil's finest modernist homes

The home is designed with a seamless transition between indoor and outdoor spaces, creating a flow from the living rooms to the open-air pool and garden. The architect explains that, 'The cross ventilation system implemented throughout the area, combined with the fully-opening glass panes of the façade create a seamless transition between indoors and outdoors'

Located in São Paulo, Fazenda Boa Vista is not your typical country home. Designed and created as an abode that was at once open, lightweight and integrated with the landscape, it also appears sleek and luxurious. Completed in 2015 after two years of work, the steel-framed former farmhouse follows the shape of the surrounding terrain. The result is an elegant, earthen-toned 700 sq m house in wood, glass and stone.