Ribas House | Estudio MRGB

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Ribas House | Estudio MRGB

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  • Project Name: Ribas House
  • Practice: Estudio MRGB
  • Products: Arquivo Contemporâneo , Deca , Arte ofício , Chance , Evviva Bertolini , Marmoraria Alvorada , Raspatac , Portinari , Vidromex , TG Technical Group
  • Completion year: 2018
  • Gross Built up Area: 750 m²
  • Project Location: Brasília
  • Country: Brazil
  • Design Team: Bruno Ribas, Ana Orefice and Flavia Groba
  • Engineering: Stumm Engenharia
  • Structural Consultants: Helder Rossi
  • MEP Consultants: Luiz Eduardo Rope and José Sobrinho
  • Landscape Consultants: Ana Paula Roseo
  • Photo Credits: Joana França
  • Others: Lighting - Dessine
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Project Description

[Text submitted by architect] Placed 20 kilometers apart from Brasília’s Plano Piloto center, the Casa Ribas overhangs in a plot with reduced dimensions and appropriates it in a way to balance the privacy-conviviality binom.  Four concrete walls placed longitudinally and spanning fifteen meters from each other anchors, inside its limits, two steel pavilions separated by a patio. This initial partí structures the house in a way to dispose upon these metallic pieces the intimate spaces and, beneath their shadows, the communal spaces.

Ribas House | Estudio MRGB
© Studio MRGB
Ribas House | Estudio MRGB
© Studio MRGB
Ribas House | Estudio MRGB
© Studio MRGB

The patio was articulated here as the central element of spatial organization. It was placed to distribute light and vegetation in a panoramic way to the ground floor level and to produce a silent communication with the upper floor level. The load-bearing concrete walls, afar from their static duty to anchor the steel beams the structures of the upper pavilions, also have an infrastructural character – it withholds service spaces on the ground floor and, circulation on the upper floor.

Ribas House | Estudio MRGB
© Joana França
Ribas House | Estudio MRGB
© Joana França
Ribas House | Estudio MRGB
© Joana França
Ribas House | Estudio MRGB
© Joana França

It is possible to say that the ensemble generated from the project’s actions and interactions resulted, therefore, a house where the re-establishment of a nonexistent landscape must be strong enough to establish dialogues: sometimes more silent, sometimes more outspoken.

Ribas House | Estudio MRGB
© Joana França
Ribas House | Estudio MRGB
© Joana França
Ribas House | Estudio MRGB
© Joana França

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