The Makenna Resort by Drucker Architects
Drucker Architects have completed the Makenna Resort in Itacaré, Brazil.
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Description from Drucker Architects:
The challenge of this project was to transform a natural place in an architectural space, or build a territory in which the physical landmark is no longer a backdrop to become an active part of their own construction, identifying those key elements of the landscape to emerge through a system of relations that go beyond the visual area of the building.
The building fits the landscape, radicalizing their potential, thus creating a large belvedere. Expanding dramatically the feeling of horizontality, eliminating the visual field that which is not substantial to the essence of landscape. Floor and ceiling acquire a substantial value.
The structural system adopted responds well to the program and enforcement without waivers, without violence as well. A system strict and precise, but also open and flexible.
Architects: Monica Drucker / Ruben Otero
Project team: Juliana Martins / Fausto Chino / Roni Ebina / Ignacio Errandonea / Victor Minghini
Construction management: Thilo Scheuermann
Structural engineering: Pedro Teleki
Project year: 2004
Construction year: 2010
Architecture by Drucker Arquitetura
Photography © Leonardo Finotti
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joseph on 20 Sep 2010 at 3:26 pm #
its a good piece of work really….im in love wth th interiors,the windows of the bedrooms are just different
Yes,nice work
hovaard on 20 Sep 2010 at 7:18 pm #
drop dead gorgeous
andeson on 20 Sep 2010 at 7:44 pm #
Love the project, love the area but the final result has a foot in the 70′s. Nothing new there.
Jimw on 20 Sep 2010 at 8:38 pm #
This firm needs a good copy editor with a knowledgeable grasp of interpreting Portuguese/Spanish into English.
Roni on 21 Sep 2010 at 6:26 am #
SLABS INTO THE SEA
Between the cities of Ilhéus and Itacaré, the landscape is dominated by the exuberant native Mata Atlântica (Atlantic Forest) and a sea of palm trees. The area is a forest reserve protected by entities such as Unesco and Ibama, and is a target of strict constructive restrictions. In order to make an intervention possible to accommodate the program of a resort, the buildings were distributed as follows: a club with a restaurant and leisure rooms, a spa, 16 bungalows and a service district. Instead of enslaving nature, the buildings dramatized the landscape even more, framing and revealing contours and unusual scenarios. The design of the clubhouse and the bungalows follows the principles of modernism – and it is in this architecture of concrete that the counterpoint to the nature appears. The resort’s clubhouse is a pavilion with overhangs creating terraces and interior-exterior transition spaces. Meanwhile, the bungalows have areas between 80 and 150 m2 and are oriented towards the sea. Also loose in the lots, they present the same concept of apparent concrete slabs, but with a touch of walls lined with northern sandstone, a typical rock in this region. To enable air flow they opted for front-back openings which may be controlled by wooden venetian blinds with moving flaps, thus reducing the internal temperature and dismissing the need for air conditioning. The project was approved by the Ilhéus town hall, by the APA (Environmental Preservation Association) and by Ibama. In addition to water treatment (the purity index of the returned water must be 98%), electricity is supplied by solar collecting systems.
Text by Simone Sayegh – Revista aU (aU Magazine Brazil)
BjZ on 21 Sep 2010 at 9:35 am #
Ha ha ha! Lol! I’m in total agreement with Jimw. The description is radicalizingly and violently wrong! Ha ha ha! Lol!
Joao on 21 Sep 2010 at 10:55 am #
I agree with Andeson: the main pavillion comes straigh from the 70′s. I also feel a huge lack of warmth expected from a beach resort. In this case, the emptyness of the interiors doesn’t make a minimalist statment, but instead enphasizes the lack of creativity of the architect/interior designer.
Great on 21 Sep 2010 at 3:27 pm #
In photos# 7/8/9, I love how the architecture, in its most basic and pure form, frames and embraces the palm trees. The exposed concrete seems to render the building “invisible” in its location – which is a good thing – but at the same time it takes away the building’s “presence” and somehow makes it ill-maintained.
kastatelier on 21 Sep 2010 at 8:40 pm #
the bare concrete and coconut tree reminds me on bawa works in sri langka (Ceylon ). but its a nice composition .
Patricia on 22 Sep 2010 at 5:56 am #
Uff, i love it!. The simplicity of design is just, haha wonderful! I would like to visit the place. Congratulations to architects! It’s a masterpiece.
AP on 22 Sep 2010 at 12:13 pm #
@Jimw
Yeah, but you must learn the difference between Spanish and Portuguese texts.(they are not the same, fyi).
Janson on 22 Sep 2010 at 12:22 pm #
Improvements to the landscaping would better connect the structure to the landscape. As it is, it looks like it damaged the site – not the tension I’d like to see.
The expanses of polished concrete floor are lovely and much more modern than the 70′s when it would have been concealed.
Jimw on 22 Sep 2010 at 4:32 pm #
@AP
You’re quick to assume that I don’t know the difference. Re-reading my post, I don’t see where I necessarily confused one for the other. Not knowing the origin of the specific language of the description’s author I simply covered the likely options with “Portuguese/Spanish”. For simpler minds I should have said Portuguese “or” Spanish. And unless you were the author, or personally know the author, it is likely you don’t know the origin either. And by the way, we had high school exchange students for two years from Brazil, I’m aware there is a distinct difference. “Você é uma pessoa ignorante, que pula para conclusões.” Spanish or Portuguese?
luis on 23 Sep 2010 at 9:35 am #
jimw….awful portuguese…nobody jump to the conclusions here…kkkk maybe in usa could be.The translation was made probaly by google translation (usa firm) lol
ika land on 23 Sep 2010 at 9:09 pm #
the site for the build so wonderful… but i think for the build not so too.. i think for the color material so poor, if the wall and the lighting to play with color so for out and in build i think the build will also wonderful
thanks…