Casa MK: A Social House Crafted For Music, Parties and Life
Casa MK unfolds as a lively family house in São Paulo, Brazil, where social rituals anchor every room. SuperLimão Studio builds on a long-standing collaboration with the clients to turn a former renovation brief into a full reimagining of how they live, gather, and play. The result is a home shaped around music, reuse, and everyday celebration rather than static formality.
Glass meets garden at the ground floor, and the main living room reads almost like an outdoor terrace framed by structure. Afternoon light slides across the floor-to-ceiling panes and catches a central swing, hinting that the house is tuned less to display and more to the movement of family, friends, and music.
This is a house in a gated community in São Paulo, Brazil, conceived by SuperLimão Studio as a stage for social life rather than a quiet retreat. The project starts as a modest renovation of a pre-existing structure, then deepens into a full transformation that reorganizes how the family uses each level. Program drives every decision: rooms flex between parties, rehearsals, gaming nights, and the gentler cadence of daily routines.
Ground Floor As Social Core
The ground floor stretches out as an extension of the garden, where interior and terrace hold one continuous rhythm of movement and view. A main living room wrapped in glass keeps an unbroken line of sight to the greenery and to the music studio, which grows from a former annex. Modular sofas with movable backrests can pivot toward the garden, the studio, or a dining setup, so the same room serves small family dinners, crowded parties, or listening sessions. At the center, a swing suspended from above cuts through any formality and signals that play is part of the daily script.
Kitchen, Terrace, And Party Life
The kitchen keeps an intimate scale, yet a retractable pass-through window lets it open directly onto the social rooms when hosting swells. On a quiet morning, that opening can close, holding back the clatter and keeping cooking more private. Outside, landscaping wraps around a custom-built bench molded on-site in the same material as the flooring, so terrace and seating read as one long plane. A solid stone countertop anchors the outdoor cooking zone, giving friends a clear place to gather while meals, cocktails, and conversations carry through the garden.
Music Studio And Play Rooms
A dedicated music studio, adapted from the former annex, supports the family’s creative routines rather than sitting apart as a specialty room. Acoustic treatment developed with a specialized firm shapes the room from ceiling to shelving, with a burgundy overhead plane and repurposed storage drawn from the previous house. Below, in the basement, the garage edges into a multifunctional game room where a pool table and video games create a second social node. Friends can arrive, park, and almost immediately step into a laid-back evening without climbing through the more formal levels.
Reuse As Daily Practice
Much of the furniture, cabinetry, and shelving comes from the family’s earlier home, carrying old routines into the new layout. Pieces are not stored as relics; they are placed where they can keep working, from living room storage to built-in bookshelves that hold everyday objects. A custom vertical art installation in metal and rope threads through the stairwell, tying floors together with a single graphic gesture. Wood, stone, and metal balance warmth, texture, and structural clarity, supporting rooms that shift easily between weekday calm and weekend celebration.
In the end, Casa MK reads less as a finished object and more as an active setting for gatherings, rehearsals, and casual evenings. Light moves across glass, stone, and wood while the swing, the studio, and the terrace bench keep people circulating. Life here revolves around use, not display, and that makes each corner ready for the next song, the next game, or the next shared meal.
Photography by André Scarpa
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