Excerpt: Casa PER by MOCA Estudio is a renovation project that explores the sequentiality of architectural spaces through contrasting orders and qualities. Two types of spaces – ‘lintel spaces’ and ‘connecting spaces’ – are freely combined to alter the sequences. With a distinctive presence, objects that stand out for their materiality and emphatic geometry are incorporated in the design.
Project Description
[Text as submitted by architect] Casa PER is a continuation of a line of projects focused on exploring the sequentiality of spaces in architecture through contrasting orders and qualities. In this case, this relationship and succession revolves around a courtyard with a fig tree as the main element.
Catalog of spaces: The types of spaces are freely combined to alter the sequences. In this project, one can find – Lintel spaces (living room, kitchen, bedroom): expanded, in which the line marked by the carpentries and changes in height of false ceiling bare the entire structure of the building, composed of a complex structure of porches and load-bearing walls.
Connecting spaces (lobby, dressing room, reading corner): compact, designed with cementitious finishes on the floor, walls and ceiling, in green tones. They contain intensifying elements that organize the house in a compositional and functional way.
Matrix of objects: The objects, with a distinctive presence, stand out for their materiality and emphatic geometry. They articulate and qualify the spaces in which they are inserted. The comparison focuses on color: red, with a wide range of materialities that underline steps that break the strict rules of the game, places to rest and lattices that allow to observe the outside.
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