Focus sur le travail de l’artiste brésilien Heitor Seió Kimura qui illustre les Yokaïs, ces créatures fantastiques japonaises. Véritable challenge visuel et hommage à la culture folklorique japonaise, l’artiste les représente superbement et graphiquement. Un travail magnifique à découvrir dans la suite.
L’artiste Henrique Oliveira envahit le palais de Tokyo avec sa gigantesque installation Baitogogo : structure végétale, elle s’oppose à l’espace urbain dans lequel elle s’inscrit. Réflexion sur l’expansion sauvage et spontanée des villes brésiliennes, il suggère que les constructions humaines se développent organiquement.
A jumble of wooden boxes provide a compact storage solution in this São Paulo micro apartment by Brazilian architect Alan Chu (+ slideshow).
In an attempt to save space, Alan Chu confined all the storage to a single wall, with an entertainment system in crate-like boxes at one end and kitchen cupboards that swing or slide open at the other.
“The idea is to use a single element to organise the space of the small apartment with an area of 36-square-metres, distributed over two floors,” he told Dezeen.
Red surfaces inside the pinewood units match the scarlet fridge and rug, the only colour in the otherwise monochrome and wood interior.
“The apartment is the temporary residence of a recently divorced young businessman and the decor plays with the transience of the moment: a time of changes, improvisation and reorganisation,” Chu said.
White tiles laid in a brickwork pattern cover three walls of the lower floor while the fourth is taken up by floor-to-ceiling windows.
A large sofa bed beneath the double-height portion of the apartment takes up the majority of the floor space, though there is also room for a small table and chairs.
A black metal staircase spirals up to the mezzanine through another wooden box that sits opposite the bathroom, tucked in one corner and surrounded by dark walls.
Black is also used for the wall behind the bed, the only item of furniture on the glass-edged balcony apart from a chair and a wall-mounted lamp.
Dark wood covering the ceiling below is also laid on the mezzanine floor and glass panels form balustrades that help retain an open feeling.
Last year we posted a secret tea shop hidden behind rolling, swinging and sliding walls that Chu also designed.
This isn’t the smallest home we’ve written about. Previously we featured Renzo Piano’s tiny wooden cabin at the Vitra Campus for one inhabitant and a mini prefabricated guest house that gets delivered by helicopter.
Photos are by Djan Chu.
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A bulky concrete first floor balances above pale brick walls and tall grasses at this family house in Brazil by São Paulo architect Guilherme Torres (+ slideshow).
The two-storey house in Maringá has a square ground floor plan, while its upper floor is an offset rectangular volume that gently cantilevers over the edge of one wall.
Unlike the opaque brick walls of the lower level, this top floor is clad with latticed mashrabiya screens that bring light and ventilation into the family’s bedrooms, but also maintain privacy.
Guilherme Torres explains: “As soon as I saw the gently sloped plot surrounded by other houses, the idea of this large panel came to me, to ensure privacy for both the residents and their neighbours.”
The ground floor is split into two parts, with a large courtyard and swimming pool between. One half contains living and dining rooms, while the other functions as a pool house with a pair of changing rooms and an additional dining area.
Various furniture pieces by Torres are dotted through the building, alongside a selection of items by other Brazilian designers. “The decoration follows a jovial and Brazilian style,” explains the studio.
Landscape architect Alex Hanazaki designed the setting for the building, adding the Texan pampas grass that brushes against the outer walls.
We’ve featured a few concrete houses from Brazil recently. Others include a long and low residence near São Paulo and a house with a sunken living room and courtyard.
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Photography is by Denilson Machado.
Here’s a project description from Studio Guilherme Torres:
BT House
São Paulo-based architect Guilherme Torres has developed ideas which fuse the modern and the traditional. Guilherme’s own house, designed by the architect himself, bears a chequered wood design, a kind of brise soleil called mashrabiya, which is a classic feature in Eastern architecture.
It was later assimilated by the Portuguese, who brought it to Brazil. This element, with its powerful aesthetic appeal, was adapted to this residence in the south of the country, and acts as a wooden ‘curtain’, allowing air flow, dimming light and also serving as a security feature.
“As soon as I saw the gently sloped plot surrounded by other houses, the idea of this large panel came to me, to ensure privacy for both the residents and their neighbours.” This monumental house stands out as a huge rectangular monolith with two large brickwork blocks in contrast with the upper volume in concrete. A few columns, huge spans and strategic walls create exquisite fine gardens that make up a refuge for this young couple and their two small children.
The decoration follows a jovial and Brazilian style with an alliance of Guilherme Torres’ design, including sofas and tables, and other great names of Brazilian design such as furniture designed by Sérgio Rodrigues and Carlos Motta. The composition of overlapping these Brazilian styles with international design is balanced by pieces from Tom Dixon and Iranian carpets, all sourced by the architect.
The garden, designed by Alex Hanazaki has given the house an ethereal atmosphere due to the movement of Texan plume grass.
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News: a 1960s football stadium in Brazil has become the first of several in the country to be equipped with a solar-powered roof in preparation for next year’s FIFA World Cup.
The Mineirão Stadium in the south-eastern city of Belo Horizonte, originally built in 1965, has been fitted with a 1.4MW solar array on its rooftop.
The €12.5 million (£10.7 million) project will see energy fed back into the grid rather than being used directly by the stadium.
The next ground to be converted is the Mané Garrincha stadium in Brasilia, which will be fitted with a 2.5MW solar array providing enough solar energy to power nearly half the stadium.
Organisers had initially hoped to install solar arrays in all 12 of the 2014 World Cup venues, but with just over a year until the tournament starts, that target appears to have been lowered.
Earlier this year, the stadium in Rio de Janeiro that was set to host athletics tournaments during the 2016 Olympics was closed indefinitely due to structural problems with its roof.
We recently reported on plans for a new basketball stadium on the waterfront in San Francisco and news that construction has begun on a football stadium in Bordeaux, France, designed by Herzog & de Meuron – see all stadiums.
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Rooms are contained within wooden boxes inside this long and low concrete house in Brazil by architecture office Studio MK27 (+ slideshow).
Located outside São Paulo in Porto Feliz, Casa Lee is a single-storey residence that stretches across the width of its site to accommodate a large open-plan living room, four bedrooms, a guest suite and a gym within its walls.
Studio MK27 positioned the living and dining room at the centre of the plan, where it can be opened out to the garden on both sides using a series of sliding panels. This allows cross ventilation and also connects the room with a decked terrace and swimming pool running along in front.
The two wooden box-like volumes sit either side of the living room and accommodate recessed bar and kitchen areas. One also contains the guest suite, while the other encases a row of bedrooms, a bathroom and the gym.
The timber walls of the boxes comprise louvred mashrabiya panels, designed to allow ventilation whilst maintaining privacy.
The gym and sauna are located at the far end of the building. Glazed walls slide open on one side of the rooms, leading out to a small secondary terrace and private pool.
Studio MK27’s Eduardo Glycerio designed furniture especially for the house and worked alongside interior designer Diana Radomysler to plan the fittings for each of the rooms.
Led by architect Marcio Kogan, Studio MK27 has completed a few houses in São Paulo recently, including the chunky concrete Casa Cubo and the timber and glass Toblerone House, which was filmed through the eyes of the client’s pet cat. See more design by Studio MK27.
See more architecture in Brazil, including the new museum of art in Rio.
Photography is by Fernando Guerra.
Here’s some project details from the architects:
Project: Lee House
Location: Porto Feliz, SP, Brazil
Project: October 2008
Completion: October 2012
Site area: 4000 sqm
Built area: 900 sqm
Architecture: Studio MK27
Architect: Marcio Kogan
Co-architect: Eduardo Glycerio
Interior design: Diana Radomysler
Custom-designed furniture: Eduardo Glycerio, Carolina Castroviejo
Collaborator: Ricardo Ariza
Team: Beatriz Meyer, Carlos Costa, Carolina Castroviejo, 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, Suzana Glogowski.
Landscape designer: Gil Fialho
Structure engineer: Benedicts Engenharia
Construction manager: SC Consult
Contractor: Gaia Construtora
Above: ground floor plan – click for larger image
Above: cross-section – click for larger image
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With all eyes on Rio ahead of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games, Brazilian firm Bernardes + Jacobsen Arquitetura has grouped three disused buildings under an undulating roof to create a new art museum and art school (+ slideshow + photographs by Leonardo Finotti).
The Museu de Arte do Rio, which opened last month, occupies the renovated interiors of the Palacete Dom João, an early-twentieth-century palace beside Mauá Square in Rio’s port. Meanwhile, the Escola do Olhar school is inserted within a former police building and bus station next door.
Inspired by the shape of waves, Bernardes + Jacobsen Arquitetura added an undulating concrete canopy over both of the buildings, sheltering a new outdoor bar and events space on the rooftops.
“We had the challenge of proposing an icon,” architect Bernardo Jacobsen told the Rio Times. “The more modern building had two extra floors so we eliminated these to balance the set. Then we built a wave over the two, almost like a flying object.”
The museum of art comprises eight double-height galleries, accommodated across four near-identical floors. A ground floor entrance leads in through the centre of the facade, where visitors can either head straight towards the exhibitions or take a lift up to the roof.
The neighbouring school is an elevated structure supported by pilotis. The architects have cleaned up the ground floor area to create a public square, while a small sculpture area is positioned alongside.
Three levels of classrooms, workshops and exhibition rooms begin on the first floor, plus a library and auditorium are located on the fourth floor and a bridge links the two buildings on the next level up.
The Museu de Arte do Rio opened to the public with four eclectic exhibitions of Brazilian and international art.
Above: site plan – click for larger image
The renovated palace won’t be the only museum completed ahead of the 2016 Olympic games. The Museum of Image and Sound Rio by Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Casa Daros, a museum of Latin American art, by Paulo Mendes da Rocha are also set to open in the next three years. See more architecture in Brazil on Dezeen.
Above: ground floor plan – click for larger image
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Above: mezzanine level – click for larger image
Read on for more project details from Jacobsen Arquitetura:
MAR – Art Museum of Rio
Our challenge was to unite three existing buildings with different architectural characteristics to house the Museu de Arte do Rio, the school “A Escola do Olhar” as well as cultural and leisure spaces. The existing buildings, the palace “Palacete Dom João”, the police building and the old central bus station of Rio, connected shall be part of the major urban redevelopment in the historic downtown of Rio de Janeiro. For each construction we analysed different levels of preservation.
Above: first floor plan – click for larger image
The first step was to establish a flow system allowing the Museum and school to work in an integrated and efficient manner. Therefore we proposed the creation of a suspended square on the police building rooftop, which will unite all accesses and host a bar and an area for cultural events and leisure. Consequently, the visitation will be from top to bottom.
Above: second floor plan – click for larger image
It was established that the palace, due to its large ceiling height and structure free plan should hold the exhibition areas of the museum. The police building shall be used for the school, auditoriums, multimedia exhibition areas, administration areas and employee areas of the complex.
Above: third floor plan – click for larger image
The stilts, currently used as an access to the road, will turn into a large foyer for entire complex, and will hold the sculpture exhibition areas. Access will be controlled between the two buildings, characterizing this empty space as internal, open and covered. The marquee of the Road, heritage element listed by the City, will be used for lavatories, store and region of loading, unloading and deposits.
Above: fourth floor plan – click for larger image
The connection and circulation of visitors between the two buildings, in the form of a suspended catwalk will belong to this new building, featuring the most unusual state possible.
Above: fifth floor plan – click for larger image
For the police building, we propose the suspension of the last floor to balance the height of the two buildings as well as the replacement of the masonry closing façade profiles using translucent glass, making the structural system of indented columns visible and revealing the stilts.
Above: sixth floor plan – click for larger image
Finally as the main mark of the project, we suggested that the suspended square have an abstract and aerial form. A fluid and extremely light structure, simulating water surface waves. A poetic architectural character full of meaning, simple and at the same time modern in regards to the structural calculation. This element shall be seen near and by far, and from below to who is arriving at the Praça Mauá, from above by those who are at the Morro da Conceição.
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Above: elevation – click for larger image
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News: the Rio de Janeiro stadium that was set to host athletics tournaments during the 2016 Olympics has been closed indefinitely due to structural problems.
The Joao Havelange Olympic Stadium, known locally as the Engenhao, will have to undergo roof repairs before it can be declared fit for use.
Rio’s mayor Eduardo Paes said he had been told that the structural problems could pose a risk for spectators, depending on the wind speed and temperature.
“On that basis, I immediately decided to close the stadium until we had more details,” he told a news conference.
“It’s simply not acceptable that a stadium which was inaugurated such a short time ago now has to face this sort of situation.”
Designed by architects Carlos Porto and Gilson Santos, the stadium opened late and over budget in 2007 and is currently the city’s main football venue while the Maracana Stadium is rebuilt for this year’s Confederations Cup and the 2014 World Cup.
Rio intends to build only nine permanent sites and six temporary venues for the 2016 Olympics in an attempt to avoid the legacy of ‘white elephant’ sporting venues suffered by former host cities Athens and Beijing.
Other sports venues we’ve reported on lately include Zaha Hadid Architects’ successful bid to design the new national stadium for Japan and a competition-winning design for a football stadium in Ethiopia with stands built into mounds of earth – see all stadiums.
Photograph is by the Brazilian Foreign Office.
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Glass panels slide into the walls to create an outdoor living room at this lakeside house outside São Paulo by Brazilian architects Studio Arthur Casas (+ slideshow).
Named Casa Itu, the building is the main residence for a young family with two children. It is two storeys in height, but most of the rooms occupy the ground floor to create a long L-shaped plan.
Studio Arthur Casas used an earthy materials palette of sandy-coloured render and Brazilian teak wood to create a relationship between the house and the surrounding landscape.
“We always try to use local materials,” architect Alexandra Kayat told Dezeen. “We used local earth in the mixture of the colour for the facade. We tried to find a colour that would be as close as possible to tones found in the landscape, so the house would fit better in the landscape, as its quite large and horizontal.”
The living room sits at the outer corner of the plan, allowing two sides to open out to the garden. A wooden pergola cantilevers out beside it and has now (since the photographs) been fitted with a retractable canopy, while a supporting column is concealed behind the trunk of an indoor tree.
A timber deck stretches out along the edge of the rear elevation, where the architects have installed a swimming pool. From here, a staircase ascends to give access to another terrace on the roof.
The entrance to the house is positioned behind the living room, at the intersection of the two wings. To the right, a dining room extends out onto a patio with a matching stone floor. A staircase leads up from here to a guest room above, while the rest of the bedrooms are at the other end of the house.
Studio Arthur Casas also recently completed a golden house in São Paulo. Other Brazilian houses on Dezeen recently include a concrete house with a sunken living room and courtyard. See more architecture in Brazil.
Photography is by Fernando Guerra.
Here’s a project description from Studio Arthur Casas:
Casa Itu by Studio Arthur Casas
Located about an hour from São Paulo, the house in Itu is a refuge for a young couple with children. A prime position on the banks of a small lake and the presence of a large yellow-ipe tree led us to create a house that takes maximum advantage of the landscape.
The floor plan in L shape divides the house in a simple way: the main volume contains the childrens’ room in the ground floor, a courtyard next to the home theater forms an intimate living room, a large living room opens onto the terrace and garden, erasing the boundaries between inside and outside.
Above this volume are situated the master suite and a gym. In the secondary volume are the dining room, kitchen and the service areas. On the first floor of this volume are the guest rooms.
The house is marked by horizontality and fluidity between the spaces.
The entry is made at the point where the two volumes converge; a low-ceiling guides the look to the external landscape.
On one side the stone floor of the dining room goes towards the terrace, gradually merging into the garden.
The living room is at a slightly lower level and has a higher ceiling. A tree trunk dominates this space, covering the single column present in the room.
The windows slide completely and are hidden inside the walls, bringing the terrace and landscape into the house.
The wood floor and ceiling give a warm and domestic aspect to that space that is merged with nature.
A second terrace room was created under the pergola in continuity with the living room.
The whole side of the volume is dominated by a large wooden deck and a swimming lane, integrated with the landscape by rocks that penetrate the pool.
The old yellow-ipe tree was preserved and merges with the architecture; a staircase was created aligned with that tree to connect the deck with the first floor.
Several pathways are possible between inside and outside, being one of the most strong characteristics of the plan.
Ground floor plan – click above for larger image
Covered in cumaru wood and painted with a colour that uses the local earth, even though it contains a large volume the house holds a discrete insertion in the landscape, its strong horizontality in dialogue with the tree canopies that surround the site.
First floor plan – click above for larger image
Architects: Studio Arthur Casas – Arthur Casas. Alexandra Kayat, Regiane Khristian, Renata Adoni.
Contractor: EB Malucelli Construtora
Consultants: Systemac (Structural Engineering); Kitchens (Kitchen Project); Luis Carlos Orsini
(landscape); La Lampe (lighting);
Suppliers: G Moveis Especiais (Millwork); Mekal (Inox Steel); Arthur Decor (Sun shades); De Aluminio (Frames); Metalbagno/Deca (Metal); NPK(Stones); Altero/Floresta (Hardware); BTicino (Electric Hardware Finishings), Jatoba (Mosaic Tiles); Vallve (Bathtubs), Prima Matéria (Solum Paint facade).
Interior design: Casual; Micasa; Varuzza; Nanni Chinelatto; Atelier Ricardo Fasanello; Dpot; Arthur Decor; Emporium Cortinas; Passado Composto.
Project date: 2008
Project completion: 2012
Total area: 950m2
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