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studio mk27

valcotos . madrid

studio mk27 . valcotos . madrid afasia (1)

studio mk27 . photos: © FG+SG | architectural photography

A housing complex with ten 180 sqm single-family houses on a 6,120m2 plot located 15 minutes from the center of Madrid. This was the client’s briefing.

An internal street cuts the plot in half and separates the two sets of houses. The street, covered in white gravel, does not separate a space for the car and one for the pedestrians; this normally existing limit is diluted and creates a feeling of a linear park. Continue reading studio mk27

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MK27

Caledonian Somosaguas . Pozuelo de Alarcón

MK27. Caledonian Somosaguas . Pozuelo de Alarcón (1)

Studio MK27 – Marcio Kogan + Suzana Glogowski . photos: © FG+SG architectural photography . + archdaily

Density or looseness? Intensity or laid-backness? Public or private? Urban or suburban? The problem in creating new housing on the edge of the city is to somehow synthesise all of these seeming opposites – not to choose between them but to lift a little from them all to create a new cocktail of the familiar and the foreign, the everyday and the exotic. Continue reading MK27