Coser (Chimney) House by Marcio Kogan

Coser (Chimney) House


A wooden patio with trees, formed by the volumetry of the house and a concrete wall, articulates the entire program of the Coser House. The living room is enclosed in the boxed ground floor of this volume and wide windows open it to the external space.  The inner dimensions of the living room 6.5m by 10.3m, and the low ceiling of 2.40m, create a sensation of coziness, accentuated by the textured of the concrete ceiling made with narrow wooden formwork. In this way, a desired horizontal proportion for this project is created. 
In the two-story volume, arranged perpendicular to the living room, on the ground floor, is the service program, the kitchen and a TV room and, on the second floor, the three bedrooms. Sliding wooden brises filter the light into the inner ambient and the windows open out to the patio. The master bedroom extends outward to a wooden-decked solarium.  In this space a ground fire can be used to cook a great bar-b-cue on a sunny day or to light the house on a dark night. The chimneys on the rooftop are of varied shapes, inspired in the chimneys on the rows of houses in the city of São Paulo.

project >  chimney house

location >  São Paulo . SP

project >  june,2007

conclusion >  february,2009

site plan area > 615 m2

builted area > 400 m2  

architecture

author >  marcio kogan

co-author >  diana radomysler . oswaldo pessano

interior design co-authors >  diana radomysler . carolina castroviejo

project team >  renata furlanetto . samanta cafardo

suzana glogowski . lair reis . eduardo glycerio . maria cristina motta

gabriel kogan . mariana simas

tel  > 55 11 30813522

fax > 55 11 30633424

address > al. Tietê, 505 – são paulo – sp

cep 01417-020 – brazil

site > www.marciokogan.com.br

credits

photographer >  reinaldo coser

tel  > 55 11 3399 2277

email > rcoserjr@terra.com.br

endereço>  rua gama cerqueira, 71

landscape architect > renata tilli

general contractor >  lock engenharia

construction coordinator > marcelo ribeiro

Paraty House by Marcio Kogan

Paraty House

There is a legend which says that the region of the colonial city of Paraty and Angra dos Reis (between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro) has 365 islands, one for each day of the year.  Two boxes of reinforced concrete, rest fixed connected on the mountainside of one of these islands; two modern prisms between the large colossal stones of the Brazilian coast.  The volumes project outward from the mountain, almost abreast of the beach, in a 8-meters cantilever. The house, of structural ingenuity, finds balance in the topography of the land, constituting an extensive open doorway and living space in the practically-untouched nature.  In the rocks of Paraty, in the dense rain forest of the island, poisonous spiders, discover this orthogonal volume and penetrate the grass that coats the slab. Moving their fore and hind legs quickly, they reclaim the site. The spiders continue on their way into the house and penetrate into an important furniture collection of the XX century designed, among others, by George Nakashima, Luis Barragan, Lina Bo Bardi, Sérgio Rodrigues, Joaquim Tenreiro and José Zanine Caldas. The spiders become lost in the upholstered chair. 

The inhabitants arrive by boat: the entrance to the house, already protected by the slab, after stepping on the sand, is via a metallic bridge positioned over a crystal-lined reflecting pool. The bridge leads to stairs connecting to the lower volume.  This volume contains part of the program of the house: living room, kitchen and service area.  The continual internal area has a 27-meter span and huge glass windows allow for the view, the sea.  

The same entrance stairs lead to the upper volume which lodges the bedrooms.  In the front part of the house, retractile panels of eucalyptus sticks protect the bedrooms from the sun. The spaces that face the mountain, have small internal patios with zenital lighting and the use of exposed  reinforced concrete grants a striking texture to the walls.   

The entire top of the house is covered with terraces, observatories for the inhabitants, for the poisonous spiders, or garden for the sculptures and for the medicinal plants and edible herbs.  

Gabriel Kogan

project > Paraty house 

location>  Paraty . RJ . Brazil

project >  january ,2008 

conclusion >  may ,2009 

site area > 50000 m2

builted area >  1050 m2 

architecture

author >  marcio kogan 

co-author >  suzana glogowski

interior design co-authors >  diana radomysler . carolina castroviejo 

team >  beatriz meyer . eduardo glycerio . gabriel kogan 

lair reis . maria cristina motta . mariana simas

oswaldo pessano . renata furlanetto . samanta cafardo

tel  > 55 11 30813522 

fax > 55 11 30633424

address > al. Tietê, 505 – são paulo – sp 

cep 01417-020 – brazil

site > www.marciokogan.com.br

credits

photographer >  nelson kon

tel  > 55 11 32314868

email > nk@nelsonkon.com.br

endereço>  rua general jardim, 645 – conj. 31

cep > 01223-011

landscape architect > gil fialho

general contractor >  lock engenharia 

arq. andressa donadio

eng. romolo germano

structure engineer > sf engenharia

eng. Otávio de souza gomes

Casa Corten by Marcio Kogan

Casa Corten

Casa Corten is an urban house located near the largest park in the city of São Paulo, Brazil.   The site, long and narrow, contains the program of the house and, its residents, not only have a small external deck with a fireplace on the ground floor, but they also make use of the rooftop and, especially, the park itself for leisure. 

The facade of the house is made of Corten weathering steel.  The dialogue between the rusty texture on the outside and the stone, wood, white mortar and the glass build the space.  The front door of the garage is made of vertical wooden strips and opens entirely onto the street.  The main entry door to the house is also made of wood and, despite being of a color similar to metallic plates, the texture and the presence of the material itself, distinguishes the suspended steel box of the frontal façade.  The back façade is composed of a glass curtain that confers transparency to the opaque steel box and a suspended volume which contains movable wooden brises.  The interior walls of the lot are made of Stone.  

The interior plan for the ground floor is simple: an ample room with a ceiling height of 5.2m and four folding doors that completely open out to the deck and external fireplace, dissolving the limits between interior and exterior; in the living room, a free wooden volume houses the kitchen and utilities program; between this volume and the entrance door there is a staircase that leads to the mezzanine.   

The mezzanine, on the wooden volume, is a singular area for the home-theater. From here there is another staircase leading up to the third floor, to the private program of the house, the three bedrooms.  The master bedroom, in the back, has a wooden panel of brises to filter the light and can remain completely open.    

On the rooftop of the house, there is a wooden deck protected by glass guard-rails.  This space functions as a solar with a heated pool and a view of the city of São Paulo.  

By Gabriel Kogan

project >  corten house

location >  São Paulo . SP

project >  april ,2006

conclusion >  june ,2008

site plan area > 360 m2

builted area >  360 m2

architecture

author >  marcio kogan

co-author >  oswaldo pessano . suzana glogowski . renata furlanetto

interior design co-author>  diana radomysler

team > renata furlanetto .  samanta cafardo . lair reis

carolina castroviejo . eduardo glycerio . maria cristina motta

gabriel kogan . mariana simas

tel  > 55 11 30813522

fax > 55 11 30633424

address > al. Tietê, 505 – são paulo – sp

cep 01417-020 – brazil

site > www.marciokogan.com.br

credits

photographer >  nelson kon

tel  > 55 11 32314868

email > nk@nelsonkon.com.br

endereço>  rua general jardim, 645 – conj. 31

cep> 01223-011

landscape architect > renata tilli

structural design >  sc ltda

 eng. cesar pereira lopes

general contractor >  mantra engenharia

general specifications

cumaru windows  and doors > marcenaria marvelar

living room floor > travertine marble

custom furniture > marcenaria marvelar