Company name: Estúdio MRGB
Contact e-mail: contato@mrgb.com.br
Project location: Brasília/DF – Brazil
Completion year: 2017
Building area: 3767 sqft / 350 m²
Other participants:
Engineer: Marcio Humberto e Frederico Caiapó
Landscape: Paola Liebhardt

This is a view of the front of the house with a wide concrete slab walkway leading to the house with a large glass wall in front housing the glass main door.

This nighttime view of the house showcases the warm glow of the interior that excape through the glass wall of the front of the house.

This is the daytime view of the front of the house depicting the bright exteriors that go well with the large glass wall and windows complemented by the grass lawn.

This is a view from the back of the house with a grayish tone to its exteriors complemented by the unique designs and the lush landscape of grass lawns and flowering shrubs.

This is a close look at the rooftop open area of the house with a section that has glass walls.

This is a farther look at the rooftop level of the house and the section that has glass walls to let natural light in.

This is a hallway inside the house with glass walls on both sides and an industrial-style feel to its floor and ceiling.

This is an interior look at the large hall with a staircase on the far wall and a simple arm chair and footstool in the middle.

This is a look at the top floor with access to the rooftop areas.

This is the long and narrow kitchen with modern cabinetry and an industrial-style feel to its appliances.

This is a close look at the exterior of the house showcasing the metal frames and glass walls.

This is a nighttime look at the house featuring the warm glowing glass walls that go well with the surrounding grass lawns.

This side of the house showcases the large garage with a large opening wall that can fit two cars.

This is the other side of the garage with another opening so the car can also use this direction to enter the garage.

Two distinct volumes that dialogue with the characteristic Brasília flatlands – this was the general concept adopted in Casa Groba’s project. This general scheme presents itself in the landscape through the following hierarchy:

[ 1 ] The main pavilion, whose geometry disrupts with the conventional residential morphology, invites the spectator to overleap public and private domains, differentiated, here, only by a glazed plane. Inside its domains are placed, essentially, the gathering spaced of the housing program, creating a gradation to the more intimate spaces- the secondary block. [ 2 ] The secondary block, with its lower scale – mimicking the horizontality of Brasília’s plains – holds the more private spaces of the family, with fewer openings and more dialogue with the back portion of the site and its vegetation.

Even though the architectural partí establishes two different volumes to structure the project, there is, in fact, a harmonical dialogue that confers singularity to the overall design.

Constructive wise, the main pavilion is structured by concrete porticos that wide a span of six meters long; six of those are repeated with an interval of 4,60m, enclosing the general structural solution of the first block. This general conception is statically guaranteed by longitudinal beams in the upper floor’s slab plan and the roofing inclined slabs – these were carefully designed to create thermo-acoustic insulation when associated with the steel shingles of the façade.

Whereas the main block appropriates itself from an unconventional construction system, the secondary pavilion is built as a rigorous architectural piece with inverted concrete beams, columns, and slabs.