Decameron in São Paulo, Brazil by Studio mk27

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The showroom of the Decameron furniture store is located on a rented site in the furniture commercial alley in São Paulo. To make the quick and economic construction viable, the project worked with the premise of a light occupation of the lot, basically done with industrial elements, which could easily be assembled.

Decameron (Image Courtesy Pedro Vannucchi)

• Architects: Studio mk27
• Project: Decameron
• Location: São Paulo, Brazil
• Project Date: January, 2010
• Completion: January, 2011
• Software used: Vectorworks to make the 3d model and cinema 4d to render it

Interior View (Image Courtesy Pedro Vannucchi)

• Site area: 540 m2
• Built area: 250 m2
• Architect Design: marcio kogan
• Co-architect: mariana simas
• Interior design: diana radomysler, mariana simas
• Collaborator: pedro tuma,  Oswaldo pessano

Exterior View (Image Courtesy Pedro Vannucchi)

• Photographer: pedro vannucchi
• Landscape: renata tilli
• Contractor: terra gaia
• Structure Engineer: pouguett engenharia e projetos
• Team: beatriz meyer, carolina castroviejo, eduardo chalabi, eduardo glycerio, eduardo gurian, elisa friedmann, gabriel kogan,  lair reis, luciana antunes, maria cristina motta, renata furlanetto, samanta cafardo, suzana glogowki

Exterior View (Image Courtesy Pedro Vannucchi)

The space was constructed through a mixed solution, with maritime transport containers and a specifically designed structure. Despite the spatial limitation imposed by the pre-determined dimension of the containers, the piece has impressive structural attributes that makes piling them possible. Two stories of containers form tunnels where products are displayed side by side.

Exterior View (Image Courtesy Pedro Vannucchi)

The ample span, necessary to show furniture in relation with each other, is constructed by a metallic structure. This space is closed, in front and in back, by double-height metal casements with alveolar polycarbonate. At the back of the lot, there is a patio filled with trees and a pebbled-ground. When both doors are simultaneously opened, the whole store becomes integrated with its urban context. At rush stressful hours, by opening only the back doors, the store becomes self-absorbed, ruled by the presence of the inner-garden.

Front View (Image Courtesy Pedro Vannucchi)

On the back of the site is the office, closed by a glass wall that enables the designers to take part on the sales life. Two edges of the design process in contact through the inner patio as other opposing strengths also meet at this small project: The intensity of the urban life and a small nature retreat, the power of the containers and the lightness of the metallic structure and finally, the linearity of the tunnels and the cubic volume.

Decameron (Image Courtesy Pedro Vannucchi)

Decameron (Image Courtesy Pedro Vannucchi)

Exterior View (Image Courtesy Pedro Vannucchi)

Interior View (Image Courtesy Pedro Vannucchi)

Lighting (Image Courtesy Pedro Vannucchi)

Exterior View (Image Courtesy Pedro Vannucchi)

Front View (Image Courtesy Pedro Vannucchi)

Front View (Image Courtesy Pedro Vannucchi)

Exterior View (Image Courtesy Pedro Vannucchi)

Decameron (Image Courtesy Pedro Vannucchi)

Interior View (Image Courtesy Pedro Vannucchi)

Decameron (Image Courtesy Pedro Vannucchi)

Decameron (Image Courtesy Pedro Vannucchi)

Tags: Brazil, Sao Paulo

Categories: Cinema 4D, Showroom, Vectorworks

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