This was not my dream. Redux House

A film by Pedro Kok & Gabriel Kogan, for the 14th Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale.

Redux House by Studio MK27. Photography © Fernando Guerra.

As an official part of the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale the exhibition at Palazzo Bembo and Palazzo Mora, TIME SPACE EXISTENCE, presents a large combination of architects. More than 100 architects from over 40 countries presented in 2 Venetian Palazzi. Between them, Studio MK27‘s Marcio Kogan has contributed to the exhibition with five videos that portray the daily lives of the residents and his buildings.

The contradictions and sophistications around contemporary architecture are narrated in a fictitious documentary. ... , a recently divorced woman lives a psychological drama inside Redux House and shows not only the uses of house, but also the processes behind the project’s construction.

Below, this video was produced by Pedro Kok and Gabriel Kogan, titled "That was not my dream", and shows us the Casa Redux, a house located in Itatiba, Brazil.

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Ground floor plan. Casa Redux by Studio MK27.

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MARCIO KOGAN. STUDIO MK27

studio MK27 was founded at the beginning of the 80’s by Marcio Kogan and today is joined by 20 architects, besides collaborators in numerous countries around the world. The architects of the Studio develop the projects from start to finish, and sign as the projects co-authors. The Office has won numerous international awards such as: Wallpaper Design Awards, Record House, Interior Record, D&AD, LEAF Awards, Dedalo Minosse, Barbara Cappochin of the International Biennial of Padova, Spark Awards and World Architecture Festival. In 2011, Wallpaper and Época considered Marcio Kogan as one of the 100 most influential people and received the title of honorary member of the AIA, American Institute of Architects and in 2012 represented Brazil in the Venice Biennial of Architecture. In Brazil he has received 13 awards of the Instituto de Arquitetos do Brasil, IAB (Brazilian Institute of Architects). The projects of studio MK27 are valued for their formal simplicity, always working with special attention to the details and finishings. Marcio Kogan and the architects of the team, great admirers of the Brazilian modernist generation, seek to fulfill the difficult task of giving continuity to this line of production.