Ribas House

Ribas House
© Joana Françar

RIBAS HOUSE

Estúdio MRGB

ARCHITECTS
Estúdio MRGB

ENGINEERING
Stumm Engenharia

LANSCAPE
Ana Paula Roseo

PROJECT TEAM
Ana Orefice, Flávia Groba

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Bruno Ribas, Igor Campos, Hermes Romão, Rodolfo Marques

MANUFACTURERS
Arquivo Contemporâneo, Arte Ofício, Chance, Deca, Evviva Bertolini, Hill House, Marmoraria Alvorada, Porinari, Raspatac, Tg Technical Group, Vidromex

PHOTOGRAPHS
Joana França

AREA
750 m²

YEAR
2018

LOCATION
Brazil

CATEGORY
Houses, House Interiors

Text description provided by architect.

Placed 20 kilometers apart from Brasília’s Plano Piloto center, the Casa Ribas overhangs in a plot with reduced dimensions and appropriates it in a way to balance the privacy-conviviality binom.

Four concrete walls placed longitudinally and spanning fifteen meters from each other anchors, inside its limits, two steel pavilions separated by a patio.

Ribas House
© Joana Françar
Ribas House
© Joana Françar

This initial partí structures the house in a way to dispose of these metallic pieces the intimate spaces and, beneath their shadows, the communal spaces.

The patio was articulated here as the central element of spatial organization.

Ribas House
© Joana Françar
Ribas House
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Ribas House
© Joana Françar

It was placed to distribute light and vegetation in a panoramic way to the ground floor level and to produce a silent communication with the upper floor level.

The load-bearing concrete walls, afar from their static duty to anchor the steel beams the structures of the upper pavilions, also have an infrastructural character

Ribas House
© Joana Françar
Ribas House
© Joana Françar

- it withholds service spaces on the ground floor and, circulation on the upper floor.

It is possible to say that the ensemble generated from the project’s actions and interactions resulted, Therefore, a house where the re-establishment of a nonexistent landscape must be strong enough to establish dialogues: sometimes more silent, sometimes more outspoken.

Ribas House
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Ribas House
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Ribas House
© Joana Françar
Ribas House
© Joana Françar
Ribas House
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Ribas House
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Ribas House
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