The showroom of the Decameron furniture store is located on a rented site in the furniture commercial alley in São Paulo. To make the quick and economic construction viable, the project worked with the premise of a light occupation of the lot, basically done with industrial elements, which could easily be assembled.

© Pedro Vannucchi
The space was constructed through a mixed solution, with maritime transport containers and a specifically designed structure. Despite the spatial limitation imposed by the pre-determined dimension of the containers, the piece has impressive structural attributes that makes piling them possible. Two stories of containers form tunnels where products are displayed side by side.

© Pedro Vannucchi
The ample span, necessary to show furniture in relation with each other, is constructed by a metallic structure. This space is closed, in front and in back, by double-height metal casements with alveolar polycarbonate. At the back of the lot, there is a patio filled with trees and a pebbled-ground. When both doors are simultaneously opened, the whole store becomes integrated with its urban context. At rush stressful hours, by opening only the back doors, the store becomes self-absorbed, ruled by the presence of the inner-garden.

© Pedro Vannucchi
On the back of the site is the office, closed by a glass wall that enables the designers to take part on the sales life. Two edges of the design process in contact through the inner patio as other opposing strengths also meet at this small project: The intensity of the urban life and a small nature retreat, the power of the containers and the lightness of the metallic structure and finally, the linearity of the tunnels and the cubic volume.

project > Decameron
local > São Paulo . SP . Brasil
project > janeiro ,2010
conclusion > janeiro ,2011
site area > 540 m2
built aerea > 250 m2
architecture > studio mk27
architect > marcio kogan
co-architect > mariana simas
interior design > diana radomysler . mariana simas
collaborator > pedro tuma . Oswaldo pessano
team > beatriz meyer . carolina castroviejo
eduardo chalabi . eduardo glycerio . eduardo gurian
elisa friedmann . gabriel kogan . lair reis
luciana antunes . maria cristina motta
renata furlanetto . samanta cafardo . suzana glogowki
tel > 55 11 30813522
adress > al. Tietê, 505 – são paulo – sp
cep 01417-020 – brasil
site > www.marciokogan.com.br
credits
photographer > pedro vannucchi
tel > 55 11 8187 0788
email > pedro@pedrovannucchi.com
landscape > renata tilli
contractor > terra gaia
eng. marcello ventura
eng. Carlos eduardo murakami
structure engineer > pouguett engenharia e projetos
visual identity > nó design