A stadium at residential scale.
The design was conceived around one individual. The client, a professional football player, asked for generous open spaces to host friends, guests and family — and that calling became the heart of the design.
The free, unobstructed ground floor evokes a stadium arena. The slanted walls around it recall the stands, and the whole house echoes a stadium roof: more than a residence, a portrait of the client’s career.
To achieve a free span of roughly 30 meters, an “X”-shaped structure was devised, with four pairs of support points at its ends.
It divides the house symmetrically into four sectors, each with its own purpose: living areas, services and private quarters. The structural gesture is, at the same time, the architectural identity of the work.
Strategic skylights separate the social area from the private one. One of them is permanently open: rainwater crosses the house through a perforated metal floor and reaches the reflecting pool on the ground level.
Next to this permeable floor, a staircase barely touches the ground — presented poetically, making it clear it is not what holds the house up, and prompting the question: how does it stand?
The house sets aside an internal area for a personal museum, designed for the client to display and preserve his professional achievements in the best possible way.
So Haveblue Odradek is not just a home: it is a space that celebrates and honors a career.
Fire lounge, pool and reflecting pool, multi-purpose lounge and pantry, changing rooms, laundry, plant room, garden and storage.
The great free span: main and family entrances, garage, barbecue area, pool and reflecting pool, fire lounge.
Entrance hall, kitchen, living, dining and TV rooms, air lounge, suites, balconies and the personal museum.
The crowning of the volume — the “stadium roof” that completes the reading of the design.
Casa Haveblue is born of an engineering feat — and that rigor earned recognition in Brazil and abroad.
Designed by Yuri Vital Arquiteto, a practice recognized in awards such as the Saint-Gobain Architecture Award, the IAB Award and the Talento Engenharia Estrutural structural-engineering prize.
Published on ArchDaily Brasil in April 2026 — the leading architecture platform of the Portuguese-speaking world — with repercussions across its international editions.
Photographed by Nelson Kon, one of the most respected architecture photographers in Brazil — recognition worthy of the work.
Structural engineering by MRG Projetos Estruturais (Eng. Dirk Mader) and lighting design by Lanfranchi Consultorias. Architecture by Yuri Vital Arquiteto, built by Podium Concept Building. In 2025 the structural design received an honourable mention at the 22nd Talento Structural Engineering Award (ABECE and Gerdau) — see Press.
Behind the scenes of the builds, construction timelapses and the handover of the keys — all first on our Instagram.
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