Osler house | Studio MK27 – Marcio Kogan

Designed by Marcio kogan, The site of the Osler House lies at the edge of Brasilia’s pilot plan, at the tip of one of Paranoá Lake estuaries. The house is a poetic commentary on modern architecture, above all on Brazilian modernism, starting from a contemporary re-reading of the building materials and techniques.

The plan of the Osler house is structured by a ground floor volume, a suspended volume and a deck with an outdoor pool. The box of concrete and wood on the ground, houses the main suite, a bedroom, bathroom, the utility area and the garage.

The vertical wooden brises filter the light and can open in their entirety, diluting the relationship between the internal and the external. The upper volume propped on the ground-floor volume, on one side, and on pilotis on the other; accommodates the living room, the kitchen (done with low-height furniture) and a small office. This upper box creates a shady area and over the ground-floor prism, an extension of the living room is the solarium.

An outdoor staircase connects the deck alongside the pool to the upper solarium. An indoor staircase forms the daily circulation of the house. Near the main circulation, in the foyer of the house, an Athos Bulcão panel was specially designed and it is, possibly, his last project. The tiles that are in most famous classic buildings in Brasilia build the space here as well; a work of art designed for the house, designed with the architecture, that the artist could not see completed.

The brises, the pilots, and the plan with two perpendicular volumes are, in this house, a commentary of the modern architecture of Brasilia; the panel by, a great privilege for the inhabitant and for the architects.

Project Info:
Architect: Marcio kogan
Architecture: studio mk27
Project Year: march . 2003
conclusion: January . 2007
Site plan area: 797 sqm
Built area: 270 sqm
Interiors: Diana radomysler
Co-Architect: Suzana glogowski
landscape architect: renata tilli
photographs: pedro vannucchi
Project location: brasília, df, brazil
general contractor: ábacus engenharia eng. helder rossi
Project team: Carolina castroviejo, mariana simas, oswaldo pessano
Project Name: Osler house