A House that Caused the End of a Marriage: Casa Redux by Studio MK27.

Studio MK27 led by Brazilian architect Marcio Kogan, produced this short film to accompany their recent project Redux House – a single-storey holiday home in the exclusive Quinta da Baroneza neighbourhood, north of São Paulo. The film entitled ‘This was not my dream’ by Pedro Kok & Gabriel Kogan, was designed for the exhibition “Time, Space, Existence” at the International Architecture Exhibition of the Biennale di Venezia, 2014.

The narrator tells the story of the house and how his ex-wife fell in love with it’s sober, cool and modern lines, as she simultaneously fell out of love with him. As the video lovingly captures each detail and material of the home, the narrator, critical of the house and of modern architecture in general, asks “who would want that kind of house – cold, dull, lifeless?” Umm… me? Anyone else?

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Sandwiched between two horizontal concrete slabs, the building is made up of four box-like volumes. One of these is entirely glazed and accommodates an open-plan living space, while two others are timber clad, containing bedrooms. The fourth houses a garage. The house features a concrete swimming pool that extends out horizontally, even though the ground drops down underneath it.

Other details highlighted in the movie include floor-to-ceiling wooden doors, concrete columns, a fabric sofa and an Anglepoise lamp, although the narrator expresses how his preference was for velvet curtains, plaster mouldings and marble floors. How could you not love a good-looking house with such an interesting story?

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[Photography by Fernando Guerra / Video directed by Pedro Kok and Gabriel Kogan / Music by Kevin Macleod.]