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Brazillian architect Marcio Kogan has designed House 53 in SÃ£o Paulo, Brazil.

Full description after the photosâ€¦.

Photography by RÃ´mulo Fialdini

House 53 by Marcio Kogan

The House 53 volumetry was defined following SÃ£o Paulo city building laws and the siteâ€™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 siteâ€™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 groundâ€™s small front and volumetry, the boxâ€™s two edges had to make the most of lightâ€™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 houseâ€™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 roomsâ€™ 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, itÂ´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.

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

Visit Marcio Koganâ€™s website â€“ here.

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House 53 by Marcio Kogan

Lischer Partner Architekten Planer AG-Huse holiday house, Vitznau

photographer: Roger Frei

The clients’ desire was to live in a timber house. However, the challenging geology, the exceptional hillside location and the existing environment prompted us to design a solid construction in which the hard shell of the concrete facade encases and protects the soft core of the timber house. The prefabricated timber frame cassettes were erected, sealed and insulated on site and clad with single skin concrete. The timber construction stands as ‘a house in a house’. In combination with the concrete shell, it was possible to optimise its load bearing dimensions as it does not have to resist any shear forces.

The clear cubature anchors the house to the hillside. A bridge leads to an open courtyard with a garage and the entrance to the house. The family rooms, such as the dining and living rooms, are situated on the top floor. The bedrooms on the two lower floors are accessed by two opposing staircases. This feature creates a corridor through the structure which leads to various rooms that vary in orientation and have different outlooks.

The air-blown concrete facade was executed in Wesen gravel that adopts the reddish colour and graininess of the prominent rock face behind the house.

The entire wooden casing (floors, walls, ceiling) is executed in larch wood block panels. The timber can also be seen from outside through the openings and recesses.

Fixed glazing framed in larch emphasises the impressive views of the Lake Lucerne landscape.

Dividing elements and island units, also in larch, were used to zone out the main rooms. A structure with a cloakroom and the rear side of the kitchen divides the area adjacent to the entrance. The living room is complemented by an element housing the fireplace and a media cabinet. Each bedroom contains an en-suite unit with built-in clothes cupboard. Due to this, the holiday home assumes the typology of a hotel room â€“ creating a kind of private holiday hotel.