São Paulo, Brazil
Marcio Kogan
Post By:Kitticoon Poopong
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| Photo © Courtesy of Pedro Kok |
The House 6 project was thought out after the client had made an important request. The family wanted a covered external space to be used for everyday living. This space should be used to organize all the social life of the house. The
Brazilian tropical climate suggests ample use of these solutions in vernacular as well as in
modern architecture. Beginning from the colonial, Brazilian architecture has usually incorporated a space that was known as the
veranda. Verandas are covered linear spaces in front of the living room and bedrooms which act as the intermediary between the interior and exterior.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Pedro Kok |
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In the House 6 project, the idea of the veranda has been reinvented. The veranda is not exactly in front of the living room, disposed longitudinally, but, rather, perpendicular to it. The wooden pillars that give support to the structure and the clay tiles of traditional verandas have been substituted by modern
pilotis that support a volume of flat slabs. The veranda of House 6, nonetheless, still remains an open space and, simultaneously, opens to the garden and the pool. It is a living room, a TV room and an extension of the internal kitchen.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Pedro Kok |
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This space, then, structured the entire architecture of the house, organized in two transversal volumes and an annex in the back that holds a home office. The lower volume houses the utilities, the kitchen and the living room with door-frames that can be recessed into the walls, and thereby entirely opening the internal space to either side. This sets the cross-ventilation and an unfettered contiguous view of the garden. The upper volume has the private area of the house with the bedrooms and, on the third floor there is a small multiple-use living room alongside an upper deck.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Pedro Kok |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Pedro Kok |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Pedro Kok |
Architecturally, the space of the veranda, located under the bedrooms, would have a low ceiling-height, to create a warm feeling. The sum of the structure of the two perpendicular volumes and the living room ceiling-height would result in a very high ceiling. Thus, it was decided to make the living room lower in relation to the veranda and the garden. This result made it possible to have a house with elongated proportions and the viability of a covered external pleasant space to be used on both warm and cool days in the city of São Paulo.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Pedro Kok |
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| ground floor plan--drawing Courtesy of Marcio Kogan |
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| first floor plan--drawing Courtesy of Marcio Kogan |
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| second floor plan--drawing Courtesy of Marcio Kogan |
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| section--drawing Courtesy of Marcio Kogan |
The people
Architect: Marcio Kogan
Location: São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Co-author: Diana Radomysler
Interior Design Co-authors: Diana Radomysler, Mariana Simas
Project Team: Beatriz Meyer, Carolina Castroviejo, Eduardo Chalabi, Eduardo Glycerio, Gabriel Kogan, Lair Reis, Maria Cristina Motta, Oswaldo Pessano, Renata Furlanetto, Samanta Cafardo, Suzana Glogowski
Landscape Architect: Renata Tilli
General Contractor: Lock Engenharia
Structure Engineer: Leão & Associados
Site Area: 890 sqm
Built Area: 995 sqm
Project Year: 2009-2010
Photographs: Pedro Kok
via:archdaily/contemporist
