The Osler House by Marcio Kogan

The Osler House is composed by two volumes and a small pool and garden that organize the entire program located in Brasilia Brazil designed by Marcio Kogan.

On ground floor of the Osler house there are rooms that open to the outside using rotating wooden panels, and a small lobby that connects the second floor with a delicate staircase, which are reminiscent of other elements frequently used in the modernist city. Throughout this area there is cross-ventilation. The lobby is decorated with a panel of tiles specially designed for this wall by the artist Athos Bulcão. The second floor is organized in a prism of glass and concrete, where nothing vertically interrupts the visual transparency of the volume. On the roof of the ground floor, connected to the living room, the terrace extends the external area.

An outdoor staircase connects the deck alongside the pool to the upper solarium. An indoor staircase forms the daily circulation of the house. Near the main circulation, in the foyer of the house, an Athos Bulcão panel was especially designed and it is, possibly, his last project. The tiles that are in most famous classic buildings in Brasília build the space here as well; a work of art designed for the house, designed with the architecture, that the artist could not see completed.

The brises, the pilotis, and the plan with two perpendicular volumes are, in this house, a commentary of the modern architecture of Brasília; the panel by Athos Bulcão, a great privilege for the inhabitant and for the architects.