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Movie: a recently completed concrete house in São Paulo is depicted as a luxury home from the 1950s in the latest architecture film by Brazilian architect Marcio Kogan.

Kogan, founder of São Paulo office Studio MK27, worked with film producer Lea van Steen to produce the movie, which is entitled Modern Living and based on a Bauhaus film by the late architect Richard Paulick.

The movie centres around Casa Pinheiro, a family house comprising rectilinear concrete blocks that appear to be stacked on top of one another at perpendicular angles.

A large living and dining room occupies the ground floor of the building and can be opened out to the garden by sliding glass walls, while the middle floor accommodates four bedrooms with access to a roof deck and the uppermost level contains a separate family room.

In the film, these spaces are presented as “the latest innovations in housing construction and technology,” filled with gadgets and space-saving solutions, such as a built-in vacuum cleaner and chutes for laundry and rubbish.

A garage is tucked away in the basement and is shown in the movie as the storage area for the owner’s classic Corvette.

Security is also highlighted in the film, as a housekeeper demonstrates how post can be collected “in total isolation from the outside world” and how every space can be monitored using a CCTV system.

Architect Marcio Kogan worked as a film director in his early career and this is the third film he’s produced at one of his buildings, following a house filmed through the eyes of the client’s pet cat.

Other recent buildings by Studio MK27 include a photography studio with two folding walls and a house where two chunky concrete storeys are perched above a living room without walls. See more architecture by Studio MK27 »

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Photography is Fernando Guerra.

Here’s a project description from Studio MK27:

Casa Pinheiro

The Pinheiro house is a puzzle game. Rotating three volumes around one nucleus generated not only a particular spatial dynamic, but also different visual relations between empty and full, between the private and semiprivate areas and the view of the city.

The site is located on the other side of the Pinheiros River, one of the main rivers that define and cut into the city of São Paulo, in an essentially residential neighborhood, Morumbi. From there it is possible to see the entire valley filled with gardened houses, the river and, on the other margin, another hill, the corporate area of the city drawing the metropolitan skyline with its typical skyscrapers.

The program boasts three floors: a garden, a terrace with fireplace and barbecue, home theatre, dining and living rooms, washroom, kitchen, four bedrooms, office and family room. In the basement: a garage, laundry room, utility rooms and a gym. The nucleus of the circulation is made of a continuous staircase joined in a structural wall. This block, which organises the structure and distributes the fluxes, is the pivot around which the boxes revolve.

The volumes are developed to create constant and distinct relations between the inner and outer spaces. The bedrooms on the second floor look out to the pool and take advantage of the deck above the roof of the living and dining rooms. The box comprising the bedrooms projects outwards over both sides of the first box. From one side, the cantilever determines the main entrance of the house and, on the other, it shades the terrace.

The spiral movement continues with the third box, supported by the second and projecting outwards over the first. It shades the window of the master bedroom and part of the deck while, simultaneously, creates new visual relations with the other bedrooms and the terrace.

All of the boxes are bare concrete frames. The living room and the bedrooms have their sides closed by freijó wooden folding panels which filter the light and allow for permanent crossed ventilation. The family room, on the top floor is enclosed by glass, to preserve the view.

The result strengthens interactions, the crossing of eye views and vectors through the garden: eyes that see the view and the treetops around the pool, eyes that are turned back to the house itself, its volumetry and, above all else, to its own life.

Project: Pinheiro House
Location: São Paulo, Brazil

Architecture: Studio MK27
Architect: Marcio Kogan
Co-architect: Lair Reis
Interiors: Diana Radomysler

Collaborators: Carolina Castroviejo, Carlos Costa, Laura Guedes, Mariana Simas, Oswaldo Pessano, Suzana Glogowski
Team: Andrea Macruz, Samanta Cafardo, Renata Furlanetto
Architecture collaborator: Fernanda Reiva

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Two chunky concrete storeys are perched above a living room without walls at this house in São Paulo by Brazilian architects Studio MK27 (+ slideshow).

Led by architect Marcio Kogan, Studio MK27 imagined the house as a solid object punctured by large voids. “[It is] a monolithic volume that, in its empty interior, contains other volumes,” explains the team.

Perforated metal screens slide back and forth around the perimeter of the ground floor living room, allowing the space to either reveal or conceal itself from the surrounding garden and swimming pool.

“The common area is therefore an open space, like a rip in a concrete box, totally integrated with the garden,” say the architects.

On the upper floors, more metals screens can be pulled across the windows to provide privacy for the bedrooms, television room and office located behind the concrete facade.

Suspended treads rise up though a narrow stairwell to connect each of the floors and eventually lead up to a terrace on the roof.

Studio MK27 is based in São Paulo and other projects we’ve featured by the practice include a house filmed through the eyes of a cat and a collection of furniture built by construction workers.

Photography is by Fernando Guerra.

Here’s some more information from Studio MK27:

Casa Cubo An urban house resting like a monolith over the garden; a single cubic volume housing every function and opening and closing to the outside.Each design has small, very simple rules that give the structure its form. The rule here was to inhabit this pure volume, building openings wherever necessary and considering climate conditions.

The common area is therefore an open space, like a rip in a concrete box, totally integrated with the garden. The cube-box is rebuilt on this floor using metallic panels – made of perforated sheets – that can be opened all the way.

When closed, this system gives the room privacy and shade. When open, indoor space becomes an extension of outdoor space.

The other top two floors are held in a concrete box, where the project’s rules, the perforations in the cube, are continued: there are open windows in the bedrooms, television room and office, providing ventilation. Nevertheless, the cube’s materiality remains clearly identifiable.

On openings in the bedrooms, the same metallic paneling works to filter the light. A second layer for closing is made of sliding glass panels. This entire system of metal and glass panels is completely embedded in the walls, giving the homeowners total control of lighting and ventilation.

Like its simple volumes, Casa Cubo uses few architectural materials. The façades are comprised of rough concrete – shaped using a handcrafted wooden mold – and the metallic panels – whose color is reminiscent of the concrete itself. The inside is structured by a specially designed ceramic tile floor that forms a continuous fabric in the common area.

Casa Cubo at night becomes a lantern. The internal space is seen on the façade: the dense volume of concrete is muted, giving way to volumes of internal light, as if they were extruded from the cube itself. A monolithic volume that, in its empty interior, contains other volumes.

Project: Cube House
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Project: October 2008
Completion: July 2012

Site area: 900 sqm
Built area: 540 sqm

Architecture: Studio mk27
Architect: Marcio Kogan
Co-architect: Suzana Glogowski
Interior design: Diana Radomysler

Custom made furniture design: Suzana Glogowski
Collaborators: Henrique Bustamante, Anna Hellena Villela

Team: Beatriz Meyer, Carolina Castroviejo, Eduardo Chalabi, Eduardo Glycerio, Eduardo Gurian, Elisa Friedmann, Gabriel Kogan, Lair Reis, Luciana Antunes, Marcio Tanaka, Maria Cristina Motta, Mariana Simas, Oswaldo Pessano, Renata Furlanetto, Samanta Cafardo
Landscape designer: Isabel Duprat

Structure engineer: Gilberto Pinto Rodrigues
Construction manager: SC
Consult Eng: Sérgio Costa

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London Design Festival: construction workers made this furniture on show at London’s Gallery Fumi, but Brazilian architect Marcio Kogan of Studio MK27 has added small details to embellish each piece.

The collection was produced in collaboration with Italian architects Manuela Verga and Paolo Boatti, and includes tables, stools, shelves, an iPod dock and an umbrella stand.

Workers created the furniture using found materials on the construction sites of some of Kogan’s buildings and the architects have added details that include gold-plated strips and nails, mosaic tiles and a marble shelf.

An enamel-coated drawer transforms a side table into a jewellery stand, while a bright orange lamp turns another into a bedside table.

Vases are set into the wooden surfaces of some of the tables and one features an attached copper lamp.

Past projects shown at Gallery Fumi include furniture made from wooden dowels and an installation inspired by corn.

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Here’s some more information from Gallery FUMI:

For the London Design Festival 2012 Gallery FUMI proudly presents Prostheses and Innesti by architect Marcio Kogan + Studio MK27, Manuela Verga and Paolo Boatti.

Prostheses and Innesti is a collection of works initially created by construction workers of Kogan’s building sites and then reinterpreted with gentle interventions by the Brazilian architect and his Studio MK27.

Born out of various necessities these pieces have been created with materials available at the sites.

Kogan, mindful of the wealth of the ingenuity displayed in these anonymously constructed works, has modified and added elements to these pieces.

These interventions to the original pieces evoke an effect of contrasts and offer new meanings and materiality, prolonging the lifespan and creating a new context open to new perceptions.

FUMI will show the entire collection produced to date which spans 4 years including brand new works; the ‘Made in Italy’ collection.

These new pieces are produced in collaboration with two Italian architects, Manuela Verga and Paolo Boatti, who personally supervised the restoration works on the fifteenth century castle of Vigevano, Italy.

The Italian collection has been entirely conceived and developed in Milan.

The aim of the project is to represent the excellence of the workmanship and raw materials of the ‘Made in Italy’ brand, such as: the Murano glass, the travertine marble and the silk from the Lake of Como.

In this collection the creativity of the Italian and Brazilian architects is combined with the ‘accidental design’ discovered on the building sites.

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