Elegant, calm, minimalist, clean and beautiful are among the adjectives that can be used to describe almost all of Marcio Kogan’s much-publicized and much-awarded residential masterpieces.
The magnificent, streamlined residences must serve as an antidote of some sort to the Brazilian architect who has been quoted as saying that he loves his home town of São Paulo and New York because they are similar in their chaotic ugliness, and because he likes “energy, chaos and a multi-cultural population in a city.”
Not very far from the main design idea of the Gama Issa House, Marcio Kogan leaves us amazed once more, but this time with Osler House. Osler House is located in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, a city which is a world reference for urban planning. It is very similar in the following with Gama Issa House, basically, we still have the parallelogram box, but the second top part of the box is enlarged in dimensions from its base and is pivoted and rotated to a 90 degree angle. Osler House basically forms the letter T when one looks at the site plan. Visit www.marciokogan.com.br for more images and info.
Project: Osler House Location: Brazil. DF Project start date: March 2006 Project completion: January 2008 Site area: 797 square meters Built area: 270 square meters Architect: Marcio Kogan Co-architect: Suzana Glogowski Interior Design: Diana Radomysler, Marcio Kogan Team: Oswaldo Pessano, Renata Furlanetto. Lair Reis, Samanta Cafardo, Carolina Castroviejo, Eduardo Glycerio, Maria Cristina Motta, Mariana Simas, Gabriel Kogan Landscape Architect: Renata Tilli General Contractor: Abacus Engenharia
So here is a little clip from the mixing of the movie Favela on Blast. My college where in Rio de Janeiro earlier this year and i’ll see if he can write a bit about the experience. Try to get hold of some photos to, the Favela is big and mysterious i find it calming in a way and very freighting in another.
Well Linus is back home (thats me) and now Christian is sent of to Brazil! Yeah the land of the tanned, to the city where god spent the seventh day of the making of the earth at the beach of Ipanema in Rio De Janeiro. Im not sure if he is going to publish anything from there right now but im certain he will post some stuff about it later on when he get back! Meanwhile you guys have to put up with me! Yippie-Kay-Yay-Motherfucker
