House 53, São Paulo Building, Brazil Project, Photo, Design, Property, Image

Casa 53 São Paulo : Brazilian House Design

Residential Development in Brazil, South America – design by Marcio Kogan Arquitetos

20 Jul 2009

House 53

Date built: 2009

Design: Marcio Kogan Arquitetos

The House 53 volumetry was defined following São Paulo city building laws and the site’s peculiar shape, which is just over 10 meters in front and approximately 30 meters in length. According to the legislation one can build in the neighborhood up to a two-floor building, settled upon the site’s lateral limits. A third floor is allowed as long as the lateral setbacks are respected.

The house was conceived as a wood and mortar monolithic block with another concrete and glass volume upon it. Due to the ground’s small front and volumetry, the box’s two edges had to make the most of light’s entrance, which explains the large windows. It was also desirable that these windows would make it possible to darken the internal environment whenever needed.

The house’s inferior volume, which comprises the living room on the first floor, and the bedrooms on the second floor, is a glass box with wooden brises that open as folding doors. The rooms’ front and back facades were designed to be completely closed or opened.

From the outside, when the brises (and the front wall, which follows the same language) are closed, it´s impossible to distinguish the openings, and all wooden surfaces make up a pure single volume, without bumps. When these brises are opened, the house looks like a large wood folding.

House 53 – Building Information

Project: house 53
Local: São Paulo, SP
Project: Apr 2008
Conclusion: Jun 2009
Site area: 330 sqm
Built: 550 sqm

Architecture
Author: marcio kogan
Co-author: suzana glogowski
Interior design co-authors: diana radomysler, mariana simas
Team: oswaldo pessano, renata furlanetto, samanta cafardo, lair reis, carolina castroviejo, eduardo glycerio, maria cristina motta, gabriel kogan

House 53 – Credits

Landscape architect: renata tilli
Structure: sc ltda – eng. cesar pereira lopes
General contractor: fairbanks & pilnik – eng. Gisele Morad
Structure engineer: leão e associados – eng. João Rubens Leão

Photographs: rômulo fialdini tel: 55 11 3085 3669

House 53 São Paulo images / information from Marcio Kogan Arquitetos

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Location: Sao Paolo, SP, Brazil