Monkey House / Atelier Marko Brajovic

Monkey House / Atelier Marko Brajovic - Exterior Photography, Wood
© Rafael Medeiros

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  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  86
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2020
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  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Docol, Mekal
  • Architect In Charge: Marko Brajovic
  • Project Team : Marko Brajovic, Bruno Bezerra, Vitoria Mendes, Maira Shinzato
  • Client: Aldeia Global
  • Consultants: Souza LTDA.
  • Country: Brazil
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Monkey House / Atelier Marko Brajovic - Exterior Photography
© Rafael Medeiros

Text description provided by the architects. A few years ago the monkeys that lived at the foot of Serra disappeared. It was told that it was due to yellow fever that supposedly spread among the primate families. I don't know, we were very sad.

Monkey House / Atelier Marko Brajovic - Interior Photography, Wood
© Rafael Medeiros
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Monkey House / Atelier Marko Brajovic - Exterior Photography
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At the beginning of this year, the day we started thinking about a house that connects to the magnitude of the trees, there they appeared. A family of Capuchin Monkeys, a complete tribe! They were back and taught us the way of why, where, and how to do the project. The Monkey House was inspired by the verticality of the forest, in the possibility of approaching the crests of the trees, in a gentle and subtle way, connecting with its countless inhabitants of the kingdom of flora and fauna.

Monkey House / Atelier Marko Brajovic - Interior Photography, Wood, Windows, Chair, Beam
© Gustavo Uemura
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Plan
Monkey House / Atelier Marko Brajovic - Interior Photography, Windows, Table, Beam
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Monkey House structure works synergistically between wooden components all of the same profile, covered by galvalume skin and thermoacoustic insulation. Monkey House was assembled in an area of secondary forest, installed between trees, occupying a small area of 5m x 6m, thus creating zero interference in the local vegetation with a total area of 86m2. The perception of the forest is vertical. The horizon is inverted, following the flow of energy, matter, and information on the growth of trees to lead us in the search for energy, sunlight.

Monkey House / Atelier Marko Brajovic - Interior Photography, Wood, Glass, Bed, Beam
© Gustavo Uemura
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Monkey House / Atelier Marko Brajovic - Interior Photography, Bedroom, Windows, Beam
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The best design solutions already exist in Nature. For 3.8 billion years, life creates elegant solutions in intelligence and simplicity. In order to design the support structure of the Monkey House, we were observing which plants were better adapted to the topography of the land and which strategies were adopted to allow stability in height growth. The juçara or içara (Euterpe edulis) in Tupi, is an endemic palm of the Atlantic Forest which is structured through props roots, adapting itself to the downhill terrain and distributing the dynamic weight on multiple vectors ensuring stability for the thin and very tall stalk.

Monkey House / Atelier Marko Brajovic - Interior Photography, Bedroom
© Gustavo Uemura
Monkey House / Atelier Marko Brajovic - Interior Photography, Wood, Stairs, Glass, Handrail
© Gustavo Uemura

For the Monkey House project, we implemented the same strategy, creating a series of thin and dense pillars, inspired by the Adventist morphology of the juçara palm roots, thus ensuring stability in this vertical typology construction.

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Monkey House / Atelier Marko Brajovic - Interior Photography, Wood, Beam
© Rafael Medeiros

When we thought about the landscape design the statement was the complete reforestation with endemic plants, which we consider is a priority in Brazil and worldwide. As well, conducting local plants' growth around the house, it proposes a state of immersion of the house and the humans into the wild.

Monkey House / Atelier Marko Brajovic - Wood
© Rafael Medeiros
Monkey House / Atelier Marko Brajovic - Exterior Photography, Garden, Courtyard
© Rafael Medeiros

The top floor of Casa Macaco is an observatory. A place of encounter and reunion, to observe Nature outside and inside us, to learn and relate in a regenerative way.

Monkey House / Atelier Marko Brajovic - Interior Photography, Stairs, Door, Handrail
© Rafael Medeiros

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Cite: "Monkey House / Atelier Marko Brajovic" [Casa Macaco / Atelier Marko Brajovic] 19 Jan 2022. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/953862/monkey-house-atelier-marko-brajovic> ISSN 0719-8884

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