Location: Paraty, Brazil
Project: October 2001
Conclusion: November 2003
Site area: 990 sqm
Built area: 405 sqm
Essential Credits:
Architecture: Studio mk27
Architect: Marcio Kogan
Co-architects: Cassia Cavani, Diana Radomysler
Interiors: Diana Radomysler
Project team: Oswaldo Pessano, Samanta Cafardo
Tel: 55 11 30813522
Address: Al Tietê, 505 São Paulo – SP, 01417-020, Brazil
Site: www.studiomk27.com
Photographer: Arnaldo Pappalardo
Tel: 55 11 38732634
Email: pappalardo@uol.com.br
Landscape design: Marcelo Faisal
Structure Engineer: Gramont Engenharia
General contractor: dp unique
Alberto Du Plessis
Fernando Vasconcelos
Francisco Vasconcelos
The exterior of the house is faced with stone.
Jaboticaba trees are planted in the swirled-pebbled pavement, giving the house its classic feel.
There is a walkway next to the stone wall and plants that serve as fences.
The facade has a large window to see the landscape and neighboring houses.
The stone-faced wall, the jaboticaba trees, and the ceramic tiled roof give the house a classic feel.
The house is boxed with stone faced-wall, and the outdoor landscaped with plants.
This view features the trees, the swirled-pebbled pavement, and the wooden tresslework.
The wooden tresslework creates an aesthetic feel for the house.
The wooden tresslework also serves as the door for the bedrooms.
The wooden pillar blends well with the wooden tresslework and the ceramic tiled roof creating a classic feel.
The house is lit up with wall lights and the wooden tresslework creates a dramatic effect on the outdoors.
At the base of each Jaboticaba tree is an outdoor floor light that creates a beautiful effect.
This view from the patio features the trees and the bedrooms.
The terrace has swirled-pebbled pavement for the flooring and bamboo that serve as the covering.
In the backyard is a tree that stands out in the middle of the concrete pavement.
Floor plan of the house.
Plan for the façade.
Longitudinal section of the house.
Du Plessis House
The house is located in the Laranjeiras Condominium situated 15 Km from the historic city of Paraty/RJ. The basic concept of the project is “double face” architecture, modern on the outside and conventional inside.
Abiding with the norms of the condominium which demand a tiled roof, this solution was able to translate my modernist thinking.
The house is simply a big box faced with stone from Minas Gerais (a state in Brazil), having a central patio where four jaboticaba trees stand out from the swirled-pebbled pavement. Looking at the house from the patio, with its ceramic tiled roof, it becomes conventional.
Four suites and a small – TV room are turned in facing this area using wooden tresslework from one end to another, resulting in a light filter. At night, seen from the patio this wood covering transformed into a luminaire, when the lights of the room are lit.
The main room is turned out facing the back, the beginning of the Atlantic Rain Forest. All of the doors can be withdrawn and the room joins into a bamboo-covered terrace.
An opening in the patio looks out on to the golf course of the condominium.