Kogake / Obra Arquitetos

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Architects: Obra Arquitetos
Year: 2015
Photographs:Rafael Schimidt
Manufacturers: Ferpisos elevados, Franklin Engenharia, Menegatti serralheria
Engineering: Franklin Engenharia
Construction: Hiodemes Barbosa Filho, Ivan Alvarenga da SIlva e Juliano de Almeida Barbosa
Landscape: Obra Arquitetos
Illumination: Obra Arquitetos

Text description provided by the architects. Building designed to house a real estate company, with extensive needs program. The site of 300m² had limitations of hight so and we chose the alternative of projecting the building growing down. Access by street level is an intermediate level of the building

The real estate company, which makes use of the city to be able to exist, intends to be completely open to the city creating a free space with the sidewalk.

All places are visible. It was designed a building without excesses, with the maximum of objectivity to reduce both the necessary investment and the time of construction.

In the underground, with double-legged stretch, the programs of greater concentration of people were sheltered. The access from the street is the intermediate level, housing the reception and a small real estate financing agency. In the upper, we have the administrative sector