brown cube

Corten House is an urban house located near the largest park in the city of São Paulo. The site, long and narrow, with a small external deck and a fireplace on the ground floor, also a rooftop. Marcio Kogan Architects have created the facade of the house with Corten weathering steel to create a dialogue between the rusty texture on the outside and the stone, wood, white mortar and the glass build the space. The front door of the garage is made of vertical wooden strips and opens entirely onto the street. The back façade is composed of a glass curtain that confers transparency to the opaque steel box and a suspended volume which contains movable wooden brises. The interior walls of the lot are made of Stone.

The Architects have made the interior plan for the ground floor simple: ceiling height of 5.2m and four folding doors that completely open out to the deck and external fireplace, meanwhile in the living room, a free wooden volume houses the kitchen and utilities program. Between this volume and the entrance door there is a staircase that leads to the mezzanine. The mezzanine, on the wooden volume, is a singular area for the home-theater. Here there is another staircase thats leads up to the third floor, to the private program of the house, the three bedrooms. The master bedroom, in the back, has a wooden panel of brises to filter the light and can remain completely open. On the rooftop of the house, there is a wooden deck protected by glass guard-rails. This space functions as a solar with a heated pool and a view of the city of São Paulo.