MK27 | Linear Pool and Wooden Louvers: The Water of Contemporary Brazilian Residences

The residence is a horizontally extended white volume, with the entire second floor enveloped by movable dark wooden louvers. When the louvers are open, the interior and exterior merge; when closed, the entire building transforms into a textured box. The swimming pool is a narrow, elongated strip of water, running parallel to the long side of the building, almost the same length as the house, and wide enough for only two or three people side-by-side. The pool edge is flush with the wooden deck. The first floor is a fully open living space, with low modular sofas and long hardwood tables directly facing the water. Tropical trees form a background wall behind. Shot from one end of the pool along its long axis during the day, with the strip of water, the rhythm of the wooden louvers, and the white volume forming three horizontal layers. Avoid: making the pool square or curved, changing the louvers to glass curtain walls, adding flowerbeds and decorative lighting, making the volume taller.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

住宅是一個水平延伸的白色量體,二樓整層以可推移的深色木格柵包住,格柵拉開時室內外連成一體,拉上時整棟建築變成一個有紋理的盒子。泳池是一條窄長的水帶,平行貼著建築的長邊,長度幾乎和房子一樣,寬度只夠兩三個人並排,池緣與木平台齊平。一樓是全開放的起居空間,家具是低矮的模組沙發與硬木長桌,直接面對水。熱帶樹木在後方成為背景牆。日間從泳池的一端沿長軸拍攝,水帶、木格柵的節奏與白色量體構成三個水平層。避免:泳池做成正方形或曲線、格柵改為玻璃帷幕、加入花壇與裝飾照明、把量體變高。