Brazilian architects Marcio Kogan presents  BR House, a minimalist summer retreat located in Brazil Jungle. The landscape—rife with ferns and high, thin trunks—resembles Rio’s site when it was still wild and undeveloped. Given the lushness and the privacy it affords, it’s best to let jungle be jungle: Build a terrarium in reverse—a viewing platform raised on stilts and nestled into the tree canopy’s green shadows. This house steel skeleton already stood on a long, narrow strip of cleared and graded land, with a heavy steel entrance bridge leading over the creek that cuts through two edges of the secluded, 1.5-acre property. Its steel pillars, raising the house above the jungle floor, lacked perfect symmetry in plan—a condition unsettling to his orderly instincts. But although constraints imposed by the existing structure dictated its overall form, the elongated box ended up suiting Kogan’s sensibilities. More information please visit the architects website – via contemporist & housedesignidea

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