Marcio Kogan / House for a special client

PROGRAM

What if the clients of a new house were characters of great European movies of the XX century? Wouldn’t it be a privilege to design for these characters which we could have observed in intimacy? We can only imagine the dreams and dream together with these clients that have made us dream other times. We decode the desires and suggest new ways of living.  The poetic and enigmatic dimensions of these character-clients free us from silly suppositions .

The home is a type of monument to the quotidian. Designing a house is simultaneously paying homage to the daily activities of those who live there, who will continue transforming the space throughout the years. The house designed by an architect brings, from its beginnings, the DNA of its owner, reinterpreted. Here we are also talking about cinema.

The proposal of the workshop suggests that the students make a house for the life of one of the selected characters: the office director of the movie Playtime by Jacques Tati; the boy Johan (now older) of the movie Silence by Ingmar Bergman or three clowns by Federico Fellini.

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