MKK House / Gaudenzi Arquitetura


© Celso Brando

© Celso Brando
  • Architects: Gaudenzi Arquitetura
  • Location: Gávea, Brazil
  • Architect In Charge: Luiz Gaudenzi
  • Landscape Design: Anelice Lober
  • Area: 503.0 m2
  • Project Year: 2015
  • Photographs: Celso Brando
  • Collaborator: Mário Esteves
  • Lighting: Inês Benévolo – Studio Iluz
  • Structure: Escritório Técnico Costa Santos
  • Construction: CMN Engenharia LTDA

© Celso Brando

© Celso Brando

Text description provided by the architects. Residence for young couple with small daughter in urban plot, 10 meters wide by 33 meters depth. Despite the extensive program, the solution aimed at preserving the largest external area of the terrain as possible.


© Celso Brando

© Celso Brando

Longitudinal Section

Longitudinal Section

© Celso Brando

© Celso Brando

Natural lighting is present in every compartment of the house. The fluidity between internal and external spaces and between covered and uncovered spaces are the most characteristic aspects of this project, associated with the determining presence of vegetation in the privileged climate of this southern zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro.


© Celso Brando

© Celso Brando

MKK House / Gaudenzi Arquitetura


© Celso Brando

© Celso Brando
  • Architects: Gaudenzi Arquitetura
  • Location: Gávea, Brazil
  • Architect In Charge: Luiz Gaudenzi
  • Landscape Design: Anelice Lober
  • Area: 503.0 m2
  • Project Year: 2015
  • Photographs: Celso Brando
  • Collaborator: Mário Esteves
  • Lighting: Inês Benévolo – Studio Iluz
  • Structure: Escritório Técnico Costa Santos
  • Construction: CMN Engenharia LTDA

© Celso Brando

© Celso Brando

Text description provided by the architects. Residence for young couple with small daughter in urban plot, 10 meters wide by 33 meters depth. Despite the extensive program, the solution aimed at preserving the largest external area of the terrain as possible.


© Celso Brando

© Celso Brando

Longitudinal Section

Longitudinal Section

© Celso Brando

© Celso Brando

Natural lighting is present in every compartment of the house. The fluidity between internal and external spaces and between covered and uncovered spaces are the most characteristic aspects of this project, associated with the determining presence of vegetation in the privileged climate of this southern zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro.


© Celso Brando

© Celso Brando