Interviews with the Creators: Studio MK27’s Biribinhas Private Beach House

She casts a shadow for herself It was an existing house with a stain and we needed to renovate it a re-adaptation to turn it into a completely different house What I like about her is that this staircase is in the middle of a glass pavilio It's almost like you're going to a treehouse A 1 200 square meter lot which is a large plot that offers plenty of potential and with an area that would be small to occupy She was a very compact house with little space for empty volumes because she had a program that fit tightly into this spot So we take advantage of the west protect from the sun look at the vegetation and also look at the sea do that She is taller she has two floors she is not a house in the ground And the little girl fits into this second context Then that upper part that basically becomes loose because it's glass You don't realize that she has a foundation she's the treehouse So the idea was to cover that volume with a light element Let the light enter let the house have a softer illumination on this terrace without creating a harsh shadow Then we didn't do a real coverage we had already thought about it from the beginning To make these little things with a light-filtering element a sun protection one that would let rain come in You see a plan the top part seems to be supported almost floating and slightly floating over the lower part This space between one slab and another this leftover void is an architectural solution gives a sense of lightness because you see a very slender slab and the upper volume It seems to float above this slab and you don't see the structural height that is you don't see the beam that is set back behind Then it means turning the structure upside down as if I took the table It turns the other way then the structure is flipped upward the beams etc All installations waterproofing for the installations second slab The pillars are metallic and the structure of the biriba up there is also metallic She is a modernist house and suddenly she has a hat a plan of little birds covering the entire house almost protecting her Do what is strong and clear that exists in this region This house is well integrated with the landscape For me she remains within what she is outside It seems the garden has entered the house and we brought a bit of the garden's greenery inside Losing the limitations of architecture interiors and landscaping and everything becomes one thing just the form in which we generate a work The house railing at the beginning when we did the preliminary design He was a closed white plate so the element is truly born closed there And when we presented the project one of the very few comments the clients made That's how it was maybe like that I'm lying in my bed will I be able to see the sea They thought of these vertical bars flat vertical bars with space between them But at the same time there is something about the house having a certain level of protection because it's a very public place Then it was developing that prototype I think we did it during the work We were almost always making the prototype for that railing And the good thing about this element is that from the front you can see it perfectly As you move diagonally it closes in because of the perspective We are creating space by space the sensations we want That magic of light passing through the blinds every time you walk down that hallway It's different from the shadow it's all the night speech to go elsewhere I think the issue of emotion is very important and light is fundamental for us it's just another wall Marcio always jokes that he brought this from the movies we didn't make movies but we know how to do this very well too I think this idea of coming from a smaller place and moving to a brighter one Let it have more light I think these are things we use which also comes from Brazilian modernism Neymar has a lot of that where you go into the cathedral through that low tunnel and then you arrive and do that "woah " There is a moment of closure and then a moment of elevation I think that's something we like to play with I think white is a neutral element and we had already used that white in other beach houses From the earliest projects we liked to play with materials When we entered the project there was already a pre-materiality in which we also participated there are already some principles defined by the architecture I already had that concrete that was supposed to be white I already had that whiter materiality And we wanted to emphasize continue it inward into the carpentry for all the internal parts We wanted to intensify the use of these key materials Then this white will permeate through different textures It's the latticework the delicate mesh the slats it's this way we play with textures A fundamental feature of the house was the pebble floor we wanted to bring this to the pool as well Then the pool is also made of pebbles green pebbles just like we like to play with textures People also enjoy playing with sensations So here you have almost a massage on your foot Here it's different it's more direct but you can feel the difference between the stones Combining with that is the wood in a few places To bring a bit of that coziness into the house I think the other fundamental thing is the thatched roof who brings this game of light and shadow where you see the day pass where you feel the clouds passing It brings this life home even when no one is living there One important aspect of this project is that it is certified by GVC Casa and it receives the gold certification Getting a gold certification is very difficult Because the certification criteria are very business-oriented and business is easier to handle Then you have a house with eucalyptus shingles white concrete installations with a lot of galvanization a lot of stainless steel Everything is very concerned about the issue of the coastal front which is very aggressive So we have a technical layer on top Where we have the condensers photovoltaic plate We have the solutions these cross-ventilation solutions For sun protection for shading So it's a box an L that has inside a box of a sash Covered by a layer of biribas These are flat structures that float at various levels