São Paulo, Brazil
Studio MK27-Marcio Kogan
Post By:Kitticoon Poopong
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| Photo © Courtesy of Pedro Vannucchi |
World Architecture Festival 2011 - Category Winner: SHOPPING
The showroom of the Decameron
furniture store is located on a rented site in the furniture commercial alley in São Paulo.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Pedro Vannucchi |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Pedro Vannucchi |
The space was constructed through a mixed solution, with
maritime transport containers and a specifically designed structure. Despite the spatial limitation imposed by the pre-determined dimension of the containers, the piece has impressive structural attributes that makes piling them possible.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Pedro Vannucchi |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Pedro Vannucchi |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Pedro Vannucchi |
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Two stories of containers form tunnels where products are displayed side by side. The ample span, necessary to show furniture in relation with each other, is constructed by a metallic structure. This space is closed, in front and in back, by double-height metal casements with alveolar polycarbonate.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Pedro Vannucchi |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Pedro Vannucchi |
At the back of the lot, there is a patio filled with trees and a pebbled-ground. When both doors are simultaneously opened, the whole store becomes integrated with its urban context.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Pedro Vannucchi |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Pedro Vannucchi |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Pedro Vannucchi |
At rush stressful hours, by opening only the back doors, the store becomes self-absorbed, ruled by the presence of the inner-garden.
On the back of the site is the office, closed by a glass wall that enables the designers to take part on the sales life.
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Two edges of the design process in contact through the inner patio as other opposing strengths also meet at this small project: The intensity of the urban life and a small nature retreat, the power of the containers and the lightness of the metallic structure and finally, the linearity of the tunnels and the cubic volume.
Description from the Architects:
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| ground floor plan--drawing © Courtesy of Studio MK27-Marcio Kogan |
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| frist floor plan--drawing © Courtesy of Studio MK27-Marcio Kogan |
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| section A--drawing © Courtesy of Studio MK27-Marcio Kogan |
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| section B--drawing © Courtesy of Studio MK27-Marcio Kogan |
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| elevations + sections--drawing © Courtesy of Studio MK27-Marcio Kogan |
Project Data
Project name: Decameron
Address: Alameda Gabriel Monteiro da Silva, 2138 - PinheirosSao Paulo - São Paulo, 01442-001, Brazil
Program: showroom of the Decameron furniture
Site area: 540 sqm
Built area: 250 sqm
Award: World Architecture Festival 2011 - Category Winner: SHOPPING
The people
Client / Developer: Marcus Ferreira, Decameron Design
Co-Architect: mariana simas
Collaborator: pedro tuma, Oswaldo pessano
Project Team: beatriz meyer, carolina castroviejo eduardo chalabi, eduardo glycerio, eduardo gurian elisa friedmann, gabriel kogan, lair reis luciana antunes, maria cristina motta renata furlanetto, samanta cafardo, suzana glogowki
Interior Designer: Diana Radomysler, studio mk27
Environmental Engineer: studio mk27
Landscape Architect: Renata Tilli
Structural Engineer: Poughet
The products
Glass window frames: vitrocsa
Polycarbonate window frames: kiko esquadrias
Sanitery faucets: interbagno
Note>>Location in this map, indicate city/country but not exact address.
