Environmentalism Casa Bahia de Marcio Kogan in the Brazilian

If the House Paraty left you breathless, take air again. Marcio Kogan, of Studio mk27 presents his latest project, this nondescript house “green” in Salvador de Bahia. Again external merge with a boundless nature. Again interiors that combine the influences of Hollywood in the ’50s with the best contemporary Latin American design. Marcio Kogan Again, one of our favorite architects.
A house as defined by the architect as “green, but not technology,” as no help of any technical advance to save electricity. It is simply a house built with materials and techniques of the traditional architecture of the area, which has adapted well to warm for centuries, reinventing and joining the modern Brazilian architecture.
According to the architect: “The house software uses a green, no calculations are made by sophisticated equipment. Bahia builders knew how to do cool interior houses long before the ideas lecorbusianas is tropicalized, even before Sir Norman Foster had given a scientific dimension, technological needs and sustainable architecture. The houses in Bahia have tiled roofs, rustic and banal material, and wooden ceilings. The large wooden lattice panels to make walls, of Arab origin and brought to Brazil by the Portuguese colonists, have been in our architecture since the beginning of colonization. ”
And so is built Casa Bahia, with sliding walls of wooden lattice that provide comfort inside, even when the outside temperature exceeds 40 degrees – with tile roofs and wood and with interior courtyards that allow cross ventilation of spaces main. The central courtyard also allows the entire house has views of the lush garden lush chaired by two handles.
The result, not only a traditional green, but a spectacular home of almost 700 m2, surrounded by stunning nature, and exquisite interiors.

Marcio Kogan Architect, born in Brazil 57 years ago, is regarded as the continuation of the great modern Brazilian architects: Lucio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer, Lina Bo Bardi and Vilanova Artigas. His most recognized and award winning project was developed in private residences, elegant and minimalist style. Architectural influences are attributed to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe or Frank Lloyd Wright, but he, love the cinema, likes declared disciple of Ingmar Bergman, Fellini and Andy Warhol. In addition to great filmmaker, Kogan loves both his native São Paulo and New York, as they are similar in their chaotic blend of ugliness and multicultural energy.