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House Petry

House Petry
© Hermes Romão

HOUSE PETRY

Estúdio MRGB

ARCHITECTS
Estúdio Mrgb

AREA
420 m²

PHOTOGRAPHS
Hermes Romão

MANUFACTURERS
Alutec, Bontempo, Centrogran, Deca, Hill House, Lumini, Madipê, Portinari

LANDSCAPE
Ana Paula Roseo

PROJECT TEAM
Ana Orefice, Ana Carolina Moreth, Filipe Bresciani, Larissa Pontes, Lucas Felipe Campos

ENGINEERING
André Torres

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Igor Campos, Hermes Romão, Rodolfo Marques

CATEGORY
Houses

YEAR
2019

LOCATION
Brazil

Text description provided by architect.

Located in the outskirts of Brasília, the Casa Petry design emerges from a careful analysis of the site.

House Petry
© Hermes Romão
House Petry
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Physically it is characterized by a subtle 1,2m slope, measuring 17 meters wide by 35 meters long.

Its immediate neighbors occupy virtually all the transversal dimensions of its specifics plots with a considerable height, which, architecturally wise, creates an unsettling feeling.

House Petry
© Hermes Romão
House Petry
© Hermes Romão

Therefore, the following challenges were placed and led the design process as a whole:
[1] How to correctly insert an architectural piece with an approximate 235m² footprint, also occupying two floors, without losing hand of a more pleasant scale?

[2] What should be the better way to take advantage of the apparent flat topography?
[3] Ultimately, how to articulate a sensation of unrestricted symbiosis between the project and its own landscape?

House Petry
© Hermes Romão
House Petry
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A clear intention of structuring the architectural composition in tune with the scales that represent them has driven

The project to strategically take advantage of the 1,20m slope and place the ground floor at this level.

This approach had the intention not only to generate privacy for the spaces placed at this point

But also to relieve the general peak of the construction, enabling a harmonic composition of its proportions, accordant to the human scale.

House Petry
© Hermes Romão
House Petry
© Hermes Romão

In its tenuous boundary, the ground floor embraces the more open and democratic spaces of the house, such as living and dining rooms, an open kitchen, barbecue space, and communal areas.

The atmosphere of this space echoes the peculiar pilotis ambiance, almost like a proper Brasília “superblock”.

House Petry
© Hermes Romão
House Petry
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In Casa Petry’s upper floor, vertically dislocated 1,50m from street level, are placed

The more private and restricted spaces of the family.

Rationally, a pavilion-esque typology displayed itself as the most adequate way of distributing the housing spaces.

House Petry
© Hermes Romão
House Petry
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This approach contributed to the general ordering of the project, answering with relative ease and simplicity the challenges of conceiving a home.

Simplicity, as a matter of fact, is precisely what distinguishes this pavilion, gently embedded in its site, from its surroundings.

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Conceptual sketch 01
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Cross sections
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Site plan
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Ground floor plan
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