Studio MK27

Txai House

Txai House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

Txai House

Studio MK27 - Marcio Kogan + Carolina Castroviejo + Gabriel Kogan

ARCHITECTS
Carolina Castroviejo, Gabriel Kogan, Studio Mk27 - Marcio Kogan

STRUCTURE ENGINEER
Benedictis Engenharia

DESING TEAM
Carlos Costa, Laura Guedes, Mariana Ruzante, Mariana Simas, Paula Sertório

INTERIOR DESIGN
Diana Radomysler

MANUFACTURERS
By Kamy, Tora Brasil

AUTHOR
Marcio Kogan

CONTRACTOR
Rfm

CO AUTHORS
Carolina Castroviejo, Gabriel Kogan

AREA
640 M²

YEAR
2014

LOCATION
Itacaré, Brazil

CATEGORY
Houses

Text description provided by architect.

The Txai Housemerges elements of the vernacular colorful Bahian Houses with the precise lines of Brazilian Modern architecture.

Txai House
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Txai House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

Located in front of a beautiful beach in the city of Itacaré – in the Brazilian northeast – the site of Txai Housereaches 13 meters above the sea level.

This topographical condition allowed for, even with the existing treetops, a beautiful view of the coast.

Txai House
Txai House
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To avoid excessive verticalization and still accommodate the entire necessity program, the house rests on two levels without any pavement overlapping.

This solution ended up creating a new artificial configuration for the plot, as a second nature, which recomposes the original topography, now with the house settled.

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

On the lower floor, we have the living room. With a large veranda, all of the window frames can be entirely recessed.

The living room then becomes an open space, protected by a large flat pre-stressed slab.

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

The kitchen is joined to this social area, facing the dining room and contained within a wooden volume that also holds a small utility area and a washroom.

In front of the veranda-living-room, there is an infinity pool and a solarium with chaise-longs.

In the back, a patio with vegetation ends up allowing for cross-ventilation in the area.

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

The structural system was modulated in spans of 9.70m by 6.30m, in a rational domino system.

On the roof of this first floor there is an open wooden deck with a wonderful view of the sea.

On this second floor are also the bedrooms, located under the pitched roof in colorful wooden and stucco volumes.

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

There is no internal connection from the living room and the kitchen with the bedrooms. The trajectories therefore, are always done from the outside, with the garden as passage.

The residents experience the climactic conditions while going from one to the other.

The bathrooms extend outside of the roof and are all opened to the outside, having their own individual gardens defined by walls, like patios.

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

The doors in front of the rooms look out to a generous 2.5m-wide veranda where the hammocks rest on the recycled wood roof.

The mashrabiya doors – a wooden latticed element, traditional in modern and colonial Brazilian architecture – shade the interior of the bedrooms, allowing the breeze to pass; and they can remain completely open for complete control of the interior light.

The materials used in the house are all local. Efforts were made to also have raw finishings that age well in the aggressive tropical coastal climate.

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

In the case of the volumes, using a color chart inspired by the local houses, the architecture sought live and pure colors which, when applied on the wooden mashrabiya, contributes to the durability of the material in creating a thick layer of protection against the salt air.

The House Txai offers a radical experience of integration between the inside and out. It is a place to drink coconut water, swaying in the hammocks.

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

The tropical atmosphere of Bahia impregnates all of the spaces and the contact with the garden is necessary in order to use the house, as it integrates the trajectories of quotidian life.

Txai House
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Txai House
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Txai House
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Txai House
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Txai House
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Txai House
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Txai House
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Txai House
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Txai House
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Txai House
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Txai House
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Txai House
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Ground Floor Plan
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First Floor Plan


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Sections
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Sections


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Elevations 1
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Elevations 2


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Site Plan

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