archiDIA: BR HOUSE

Friday, January 21, 2011

BR HOUSE

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BR HOUSE / MARCIO KOGAN
LOCATION : RIO DE JANEIRO , BRAZIL
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In terms of an architectural proposition, the BR House located in the countryside could not be more intriguing: situated within the dense and impressive Rain Forest, circumscribing and penetrating the area, dominates all senses. The circumstances, from the inception, forces fundamental questions for architecture: how can architecture present itself and, if making itself present, how can it deliberately show itself as construction? A chalet or any other mimicry of puristic architecture, comfortably absorbed by the landscape, is a banal dissembling response; a denial of the confrontation which would deprive the traces of the radicalness and vigor arising from this contrast.

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BR HOUSE / MARCIO KOGAN
LOCATION : RIO DE JANEIRO , BRAZIL
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BR HOUSE / MARCIO KOGAN
LOCATION : RIO DE JANEIRO , BRAZIL
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The property of the Casa BR made it possible to create something special and important to the project: the house is approached at ground level while the entrance is actually located above the stilts on the second floor, where everything takes place (the lower floor is used as the service and bathing areas).
The foreseeable ritual defined by going up a staircase is substituted by another, that of gaining entrance to the house via a walkway located over a fine thread of water and arriving at a wooden deck. This construction has a fundamental architectural purpose: it precedes (already having been built) the interior.