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Horizontes Arquitetura e Urbanismo is an architetural firm, founded in 2002, and headed by trhee partners: Gabriel Velloso, Luiz Felipe de Farias and Marcelo Palhares, with the aim of achieving an advanced level of innovative architecture and high quality design.
The name of the company represents those ideals and the main objectives: “Horizontes = horizons = perspective of development, progress, improvement”.
The performance areas of Horizontes covers all segments of architecture and urbanism, especially: residential, cultural, institutional, commercial, and industrial projects, and also urban planning and urban design.
- Methodology
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Our proposal is to offer a complete set of services, involving all the necessary stages for construction – project briefs, conceptual design, design development, construction documents, complementary projects (structure, installations, landscape design and others), project management and site supervision.
This methodology is made possible through the cooperation with a network of external consultants, who offers the full range of complementary services.
Centering and managing all the projects with horizontes enables that time goals, budgets and quality standards are kept under control.
Horizontes is associated to Gemarq – Grupo de Empresas Mineiras de Arquitetura e Urbanismo
- Clients
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Horizontes develop projects for clients all over Brazil and outside (U.S.A. and Peru), specially:
- ALUTEC Esquadrias de Alumínio
- BELGO BEKAERT Arames
- Consórcio CAMARGO CORRÊA e SANTA BÁRBARA
- Construtora MELLO AZEVEDO
- CENTRASA (Centro de Serviços do Aço)
- DEOP (Departamento de Obras públicas de Minas Gerais)
- DIEDRO Construções e Serviços
- DIRECIONAL Engenharia
- DME Distribuição
- EPC – Engenharia Projeto Consultoria
- EWI (Epler Wood International)
- GIRAMUNDO Teatro de Bonecos
- HAP Engenharia
- MHAB (Museu Histórico Abílio Barreto)
- PBH (Prefeitura Municipal de Belo Horizonte)
- Prefeitura de Juiz de Fora
- Prefeitura de Igarapé
- Prefeitura de Vespaziano
- PUC Minas (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais)
- Puu Waawaa Ranch (EUA)
- PRÁXIS Projetos e Consultoria
- Team
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Horizontes is formed by a team of young architects, with international experience and recognized and awardees works.
Gabriel Velloso da Rocha Pereira – Founding Partner
Licensed Architect. Former Director of Brazilian Institute of Architects. Former Lecturer at the UFMG-Federal University of Minas Gerais-School of Achitecture.Luiz Felipe de Farias – Founding Partner
Licensed Architect. Director of Architecture at SME – Minas Society of Engineers. Former Lecturer at the UNA-University Center UNA-School of Achitecture.Marcelo Palhares Santiago – Founding Partner
Licensed Architect. Director of Communications at GEMARQ. Former Director of Brazilian Institute of Architects, 2006 to 2007. Former Lecturer at the UFMG-Federal University of Minas Gerais-School of Achitecture, 2008 to 2009.Fernando Luiz Lara – Special Projects
Licensed Architect. PHD at University of Michigan. Assistant Professor at the University of Texas, EUA.Our group is complemented by an internal team of architects and engineers, well as a network of partners consisting of engineering consulting firms.





