Text description provided by the architects. Cabana Solena is located on a rural property in the countryside of Flores da Cunha/RS. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, customers idealized a place of refuge, which would allow a deep connection with nature. For that, the program was organized in two volumes. The main volume, composed of a gable roof that goes to the ground and two glass panes, has a lower ceiling height on its sides, reinforcing the feeling of coziness. In it, the bed, a small living space, the wood-burning heater and the kitchen counter are arranged. This volume has a skylight in one of its waters, allowing the user to see the sky both during the day and in the usually cold and starry nights. © Geórgia L. ThoméThe secondary volume, attached to the main one, receives the bathroom. It consists of a floor-to-ceiling frame on one of its sides, facing the landscaped exterior. In this way, the user can bathe fully connected to nature. © Geórgia L. ThoméThe program extends to the outside through a deck and side area, with an outdoor table, grill, floor fire and wood-burning hot tub. In the vicinity of the cabin there are also bergamot trees, Galician lemon and other local fruits, available for consumption. © Geórgia L. ThoméWith the aim of maximizing the integration with the external space and with nature, the cabin does not have curtains or blinds. In it, changes in the weather condition or time of day are directly observed, as if the outside were part of the internal environment with its colors, sounds and aspects. whether in the ground fire for cold nights in the heating of the heater and also in the use of the hot tub You'll now receive updates based on what you follow Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors If you have done all of this and still can't find the email Interim Head Coach Josh Reeves has named 26 players in his Brazil squad to prepare for Sunday’s meeting with the Chile XV It’s the first match of the Americas Rugby Trophy series that also includes Canada ‘A’ The games are being hosted at the Estádio Nogueira in Mogi des Cruzes Despite the match not being given test status and no World Rankings points being on the line Reeves has selected an experienced squad with several first choice players Second row Gabriel Paganini continues as skipper and is one of 19 players who appeared for Cobras during the 2022 SLAR season Uncapped players are tighthead prop Levy Marinho Marinho was an unused replacement in the narrow victory over Portugal in August while Amaral was in the training squad but not selected in a match day 23 Two players who are based overseas are named Ireland-based flanker Diego Vidal made his debut as a replacement against Colombia in the South American Tri-Nations Midfielder Lorenzo Massari did not play in that series but returns from Italy to bolster the squad for the upcoming games Tags The Hounds will be looking to bounce back from back-to-back losses when they host the … Ellen Eberhardt Completed in 2021, this cabin retreat in Flores de Cunha, Brazil, was designed as a refuge and retreat into nature for those looking to escape the chaos of everyday life. Designed by Desterro Arquitetos a design studio located on Santa Catarina Island and outdoor living area surrounded by local fruit trees At 300 square feet, the living cabin is composed of a generous galvanized gable roof sandwiched between floor-to-ceiling windows on either end to give guests clear views of their surroundings. On the inside, a bed and kitchenette float in the middle of the space, while the wood stove sits off to the corner A skylight invites light into the center of the space No blinds or curtains were installed to further integrate the cabin with nature The exterior grounds feature multiple spaces for relaxing outdoors A modest deck protrudes from the main living space a hand-crafted bench and picnic table surround the outdoor fire pit and a patio hosts the wood-fired hot tub and seating area an outhouse contains a bathroom and outdoor shower it explores the many different ways we rest and recharge with nature–and fire The Solena Cabin is currently available to rent for $80/night Check out this jungle treehouse in Brazil for more unique cabin design Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrao attends celebrations Our lady of Desterro parish priest Fr Xavier Braganza and sisters at the function Rodolfo Ambrosio has named his Brazil squad for the 2016 South American ‘A’ Championship. Following on the wildly successful Americas Rugby Championship that included an historic win over the US Eagles the Head Coach has maintained virtually the same group of players with only three new names that did not take part in the new flagship Americas competition and Desterro centre Philip Ramos are the new players with Domingues coming into the group from the national sevens squad Only one specialist hooker is named in Yan Rosetti but the presence of six props suggests either Rafael Carnivalle or Jonatas Paulo will be asked to cover the position Australian-based flyhalf David Harvey will miss out as will France-based second row Luiz Vieira with the duo securing an early release from their contract with Pro D2 club Albi to play for local club São José in order to concentrate on Olympic preparations at the conclusion of the Championship series Tags Mexico hosted and defeated Jamaica on Saturday Rodolfo Ambrosio has named a squad of 26 players to prepare for their ‘Hemispheres Cup’ match against Kenya at Estádio Zerão in Macapá on Friday Included are a number of players who appeared in both the Americas Rugby Championship and South American Championship Three players currently based outside the country are present Buenos Aires hooker Yan Rosetti and two locks – Luiz ‘Monstro’ Vieira of French club Oyonnax and uncapped Pedro Bengaló who arrives from Cascais in Portugal The Sancery twins – Felipe and Daniel – have now completed their moves from Albi in France to Brazilian club São José Os Tupis are just ahead of the Netherlands in 35th spot on the official World Rugby Rankings marginally behind Ukraine and ahead of Chile The two teams have met on one previous occasion with Kenya coming out on top 27-25 five years ago in Dubai Kickoff is set for 5pm Brazil time at Estádio Zerão in Macapá and will be broadcast live on SporTV Tags An experienced Brazil ‘A’ squad including 13 full internationals has been named for the Americas Pacific Challenge Also included in the extended group which numbers 33 are a number of SLAR representatives with the Cobras as Brazil look to prepare for their upcoming tour to Africa The squad will be reduced to 29 prior to the tournament Brazil will travel to Montevideo on Sunday with their first match against Uruguay ‘A’ next Friday. They will then face off against the USA Selects and Paraguay ‘A’ in quick succession. For 11 members of the squad this is a chance to move on from the disappointment of defeat during July’s World Cup Qualifiers Loosehead prop Lucas Abud is the senior member of the roster with 44 caps He is joined by second row Gabriel Paganini and winger Robert Tenório who have 27 and 21 caps respectively who broke into the national side as a teenager returns after four years in the international wilderness A detailed squad list can be seen here Tags With two bonus point losses in the opening two rounds of the Americas Rugby Championship the Tupis were tipped by many to suffer big losses To the credit of the team and tournament organizers the Brazilians have proven more than worthy of their place in the competition This Saturday’s away match is to be more difficult than the opening two fixtures Neither Chile nor Uruguay have the calibre of a roster which Canada does and the North Americans performed very well at home first up against Los Teros Brazil’s assignment will be the toughest yet and the Tupis will have to make due without David Harvey The Australian flyhalf is the most notable absentee in the 26-man roster which is now training in the Vancouver area ahead of Saturday’s historic test match against Canada In Harvey’s absence 19-year-old flyhalf Matheus Cruz has been selected for the first time though the more experienced Lucas Duque is likely to move from scrumhalf to flyhalf to start the test Second or back row Matheus Wolf and prop Jonatas Paulo are the only other players not to have featured in the opening two rounds of the Americas Rugby Championship Wolf was involved in Brazil’s home series late last year against Germany while Paulo has been recalled after a lengthy absence to replace retiring Jardel Vettorato The roster includes six players based outside of Brazil. Three play their rugby in Argentina and three in France. The match will be streamed live by Rugby Canada Tags Os Tupis have named their group of 23 to face the US Eagles in round four of the Americas Rugby Championship. Six players who did not appear in the loss to Canada on the weekend have been included First choice flyhalf and goal kicker David Harvey is again the most notable absentee and it now appears unlikely he will play any further part in the ARC At prop Vitor Ancina has been replaced by the massive figure of Caique Silva while Gabriel Paganini covers lock and loose forward in place of Matheus Wolf Flankers Cléber Dias and Mark Jackson are absent replaced by newcomers André Arrude and Diego Lopez Another new name is national u20 standout Robert Tenório who replaces Lucas Muller Martin Schaefer has been selected to cover the midfield in place of Mateus Estrela the only player not to see the field in Langford The starting lineups for the match will be named tomorrow The match takes place at Arena Barueri in São Paulo Tags Number 8 Nick Smith will captain Brazil in Saturday’s home international against Chile in São Paulo The SPAC back-rower will have the honor of leading the team in a South American A Championship match at the Estadio Pacaembu São Paulo’s stadium used for the 1950 FIFA World Cup The fixture is to be a round two match in the South American Championship with Brazil looking to rebound from a convincing loss across town to Uruguay. The visiting Cóndores players are full of confidence, coming off a 68-07 home win against Paraguay last Saturday The match will be vastly different for Chile whose home match was played at a park rather than a stadium Against Brazil the local media will be there in force with Rede TV broadcasting the match live on free-to-air television The match is to be the second between the countries this year Earlier Chile escaped with a three point victory in the Americas Rugby Championship The 25-22 result was Chile’s only highlight in an otherwise disappointing campaign would go on to make history by beating the USA thereby finishing ahead of Chile in the final standings In seeking a win on Saturday Brazil has made five changes Coming into the team to play on the left wing is Robert Tenório of São Paulo’s French club Pasteur Santa Catarina winger Guilherme Coghetto also gets a start with last weeks’s starting 14 Laurent Bourda-Couhet moving to inside center In the forwards there are three modifications Australian Mark Jackson has been elevated to the run-on team Jackson’s teammate from the Desterro club Uruguayan Alejandro Longres will officiate the match doing so with Claudio Cattivelli (Uruguay) and Victor Silvero (Paraguay) as his assistants Tags Brazil has named a 12-man squad to take part in the upcoming Sudamérica Sevens Series With two spots in the Rugby World Cup Sevens up for grabs the team can’t take any chances with Chile The top two between the five South American nations following the tournaments in Punta del Este and Viña del Mar will qualify direct for San Francisco Where other squads have rely heavily on sevens specialists Brazil’s entire roster are fully capped 15-a-side players with all expected to contend for spots in the Americas Rugby Championship following the conclusion of the two tournaments In fact only Ariel Rodrigues and Roberto Tenório were not part of Tupis squad on their European Tour in November though each featured in test matches earlier in 2017 Only four players return from the squad that competed in the Rio Olympics and the Sancery twins Daniel and Felipe will be asked to play senior roles Other notables include forwards André Arruda and Matheus Daniel while versatile Lucas Muller was unlucky to miss out on Olympic selection Brazil have named their teams for both the men’s and women’s brackets of the Rio Olympic 7s tournament next month with the teams largely sticking to the groups that participated on the HSBC Sevens Series this season The men have opted to name Lucas Duque skipper for the tournament with the quicksilver halfback taking over duties from regular skipper Juliano Fiori Otherwise the team shows only a pair of changes from the group that played in London Arthur Bergo and Stefano Giantorno come in for Lucas Muller and youngster Thiago Evaristo Included are several standouts from the Americas Rugby Championship including the Duque brothers and the Sancery twins as well as versatile Franco-Brazilian Laurent Bourda-Couhet On the women’s side there are four changes to the team that traveled to Langford in April Veterans Bruna Lotufo and Mariana Ramalho miss out so too prospects Mariana Nicolau and Juliana Da Silva Recalled to the team are four established players in Isadora Cerullo The women find themselves in Pool C with Canada Tags Argentine Marcos Moneta won the award for scoring the best Rugby SVNS try during the … Brazilian women’s rugby player Paula Ishibashi has won the prestigious award as best Rugby Player of 2015 as determined by the Comitê Olímpico do Brasil (Brazilian Olympic Committee – COB) Ishibashi plays for São Paulo club side SPAC and is considered as being one of her country’s best players She was a medalist at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto and 2015 marks her second time as winning the player of the year award after she previously did so in 2012 The official award will be given to Ishibashi on December 15 at the Teatro Bradesco in Rio de Janeiro Tags Sr Vandana Fernandes (68) belonging to the Congregation of the Ursulines of Mary Immaculate (UMI) was on Monday elected Superior General during the 66th General Chapter of the congregation being held in Rome The congregation has three houses in the State at Lotoulim Sr Vandana hails from Vasco and is the daughter of Francis Xavier Fernandes and Carmelina Mauricia E Fernandes She made her first profession in the congregation in 1975 and her final profession in 1980 Sr Vandana served the congregation as Superior of communities Vice- Provincial of Italian Province and Vicar General of the congregation Sr Vandana also rendered her service as a teacher at St Rita's High School Distributes 32 engine motors worth Rs 50 lakh to Desterro fishermen Mormugao MLA Sankalp Amonkar along with JSW officials while distributing engine motors to canoes associated with Desterro Fishermen Association at Baina Mormugao MLA Sankalp Amonkar on Saturday appealed to corporate bodies to come forward and carry out public-related works through CSR in Mormugao.   Amonkar was speaking to reporters after distributing 32 engine motors to Desterro fishermen through CSR by the Jindal South West (JSW) company.   “This was a long-pending issue of the fishermen association and though JSW Foundation had taken the initiative to distribute these motors the matter had been kept pending for some reasons.”   we got in touch with the company and spoke to authorities and got these 32 motors distributed The fishermen are struggling and sometimes they return empty-handed and face losses Buying new motors is not possible for them The CSR activity has secured the future of fishermen.”   “We want other companies to also utilise their CSR funds to carry out public-related projects in Mormugao Taluka helped Anganwadis and also launched a vehicle for Swacch Bharat Abhiyan in Vasco I have told them to have another vehicle for Mormugao Taluka,” said Amonkar.   The MLA said he has approached all companies operating in Mormugao and told them to carry out CSR activities.   “I have given them a time frame and if they don’t start doing CSR activities in the next 6 months we will take necessary action.”   “I have also spoken to the Mormugao Port Authority (MPA) but their business activity has decreased after the mining ban and we will take a follow up They have agreed to have a budget to be utilised under CSR for public projects,” said Amonkar.   said each motor was worth Rs 1.50 lakh and the total cost of the motors was worth Rs 50 lakh.   “We have been trying to do this for a long time and we are happy to support the fishing community JSW foundation believes in sustainable community service we have made a fishing pond and pool system where local fishermen can fish in shallow waters and survive.”   we can ask them to visit the Jaigarh Port near Ratnagiri and study the project This scheme can be taken up in Goa as well We want to have works which will benefit society,” said Capt VASCOMormugao Police on Saturday nabbed a youth from Desterro-Vasco in connection with a scooter theft within an hour of the complaint Mormugao PSI Sajith Pillai said police had received a complaint from a resident of Desterro on Saturday morning regarding the theft of his scooter which was parked below his house on Friday night "We registered his complaint under Section 379 and PI Paresh Naik formed two teams for the investigation one police team comprising Purshottam Naik Vivek Bhagat and I nabbed the 18-year-old accused near the MPT Colony while he was attempting to flee.” “We took the accused along with the stolen scooter to the police station The accused confessed to the crime and has been placed under arrest.” “The accused has been linked to another crime as well Around three months ago we had detained him in a burglary case but since he was a minor then he was lodged in Apna Ghar and was released one month ago as he turned 18," said Pillai. Mormugao MLA Sankalp Amonkar along with the fisheries department officials and traditional fishermen at Baina beach VASCOIn what will be good news for traditional fishermen in the Mormugao constituency traditional fishing associations at Baina and Desterro will soon get a dedicated space for their boats along the Baina shoreline Mormugao MLA Sankalp Amonkar and the fisheries department on Monday morning carried out a joint inspection and identified two sites that would be dedicated for parking of canoes in the monsoons Speaking to the media after a joint inspection with the fisheries director and traditional fishermen Amonkar said a dedicated parking space to park as many as 500 canoes would be made available for traditional fishermen in the area "Traditional fishermen had a lot of issues and I had been continuously following up with the fisheries department to address their grievances The fisheries director has arrived today and we have carried out a joint inspection to address the pending issues like the need for a net bending shed “As of now we have travelled across the Baina shoreline and we have identified a place behind the Baina sewerage plant where we will have a parking lot for around 500 canoes through the WRD department by construction of a retaining wall and dredging of around 3 metres “The fishermen earlier had to move to other places like Kharewada Hollant and Velsao to park their canoes during rains which sometimes would lead to minor clashes and this will now be a thing of the past,” said Amonkar The MLA said they had carried out a joint inspection identified the spot and work will soon be tendered through the WRD department “We are trying to finish the work ahead of the next monsoons we will soon have separate sites at Baina and Desterro to have separate areas for net bending sheds ramps and other facilities of boat repairing yards as well," said Amonkar.