Studio MK27

Sand House

SAND HOUSE

Studio Mk27 - Marcio Kogan

Sand House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

ARCHITECTS
Diana Radomysler, Marcio Tanaka, Pedro Ribeiro, Serge Cajfinger, Studio MK27 - Marcio Kogan

LANDSCAPE
Isabel Duprat Arquitetura Paisagística

INTERIOR DESIGN
Serge Cajfinger, Diana Radomysler

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
Inner Engenharia, Eng. Ricardo Bozza, Eng. Marcelo José Bianco

MANUFACTURERS
Comarx, Lightworks, Marcenaria Dati, Monteiro Irrigação, Pedras Bellas Artes, Plancus, Tresuno, Mado

ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION
Zamaro Instalações Hidráulicas E Elétricas

LIGHTING CONSULTANTS
Lightworks Iluminação

AIR CONDITIONING
Logiproject

PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Sc Consult

CONSTRUCTION
Kross Engenharia

CO ARCHITECTS
Marcio Tanaka, Beatriz Meyer

ARCHITECT
Marcio Kogan

CONTRACTOR
Eng. Sérgio Ramos, Eng. Davi Moraes

INTERIOR DESIGN CO AUTHOR
Pedro Ribeiro

WOOD STRUCTURE
Eng. Alan Dias (Carpinteria), Eng. Calil Neto (Rewood)

CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT
Eng. Sérgio Costa (Sc Consult)

TIMBER STRUCTURE
Carpinteria, Rewood

ARCHITECTURE AND INTERIOR DESIGN
Studio Mk27

PROJECT TEAM
Carlos Costa, Laura Guedes, Mariana Simas, Oswaldo Pessano

AV CONSULTANTS
Office Facilities

AUTOMATION SYSTEM
G&f Engenharia E Iluminação

AREA
819 m²

YEAR
2019

LOCATION
Trancoso, Brazil

CATEGORY
Houses

Sand House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

There are limits, such as the ocean, that appear to our eyes and soul like boundless openings. When confronted with these powerful natural elements, architecture must also open itself and project towards the limit. The house on the Sand, with its extraordinary view to the Atlantic Ocean in the northeast of Brazil, undertakes this venture.

Immersed within the tropical woods that lead to the stunning beach of Itapororoca, the house expresses an authentic experimentation around the dissolution of architecture into its natural surroundings.

Sand House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Sand House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

The functional program is reduced to the bare minimum and the house lacks closed spaces that are not strictly necessary (corridors, entrance halls).

Confined spaces are reduced to only the essential living areas that are condensed into five separate volumes, five capsules of life, each essentially committed to a single function: one for the kitchen, one for the dining room, one for the living room, the master bedroom and another for the guest bedrooms.

Sand House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Sand House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

The volumes rest upon an elongated rectangular wooden deck, slightly raised above the ground, next to each other yet slightly detached. The entire structure is covered by a rustic eucalyptus pergola supported by 14 laminated wood frames.

The rigor and logic of the modernist structure is broken by an important detail: the continuity of the twelve rectangular openings in the canopy is interrupted by several trees that are embraced by the deck, allowing the entrance of direct sunlight into the spaces. This contrast between rationality and transience reduces the gap between architecture and nature.

Sand House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Sand House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

Life takes place inside the volumes and on the wooden deck, which becomes the connective tissue of the house, allowing for movement between spaces. The permeability of the covering makes the environmental situation highly ambiguous, transforming what might have been a common canopy into a sort of fundamental emotional gradient that harmonizes architecture with nature.

Atmospheric agents, such as sunlight and rain, are filtered by the covering to create suggestive shadows that converse with the shades caused by the foliage of the numerous trees that surround the house and cover the entire lot all the way to the beach.

Sand House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Sand House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Sand House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

Everywhere within the property’s spaces, one can feel immersed in a suspended atmosphere in which shadows and leaves split the sunrays creating a constant and poetic rain of shadows throughout the day.

The house is immersed in a green strip, although it may be fitting to say that the property itself is the green strip. The swimming pool, which is separate from the main structure and close to the beach, becomes part of the house.

Its perimeter defined by curved lines reminiscent of natural ones, while its interior is marked by the parallel lines of two opposing inground staircases that move towards the center of the pool forming an almost rectangular area at its core.

Sand House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Sand House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Sand House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

The pool is aligned longitudinally at 45 ° in relation to the main structure, opening a dynamic dialogue between pool, house and neighboring beach.

The green canopied strip opens up near the pool, forming a suggestive clearing through which sunlight enters.

In Trancoso the house abandons any reference to the dwelling machine of the modernist evocation and offers itself as a sensorial machine in which nature, light, shadows and the constant and infinite sound of the ocean become the fundamental materials of the project.

Sand House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Sand House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG


Sand House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Sand House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Sand House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Sand House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Sand House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Sand House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Sand House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Sand House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG


Sand House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Sand House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Sand House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Sand House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Sand House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Sand House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG


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