The Casa do Choro Institute seeks to endow a city of a place where a preservation, teaching, practice and production of  the brazilian kind of music 0 ?choro? will be adequately sheltered.

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Architects: Ateliê de Arquitetura, Alfredo Britto, B|AC

Location: R. Visc. de Pirajá, 550 - Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, Brazil

Architect In Charge: Anna Backheuser

Area: 980.0 m2

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: MCA Estudio

Authors: Alfredo Britto, João Pedro Backheuser, Anna Backheuser e Elaine Fachetti

Team: Ilana Luztman, Evelyn Gomes e Valmir Azevedo

Construction : Studio G

Lighting : Rio Branco e Faccini
Set Design : Pedro Lessa

Acoustic : Celso Junto e Roberto Thompson Motta Arquiteto Ltda.

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From the architect. The Casa do Choro Institute seeks to endow a city of a place where a preservation, teaching, practice and production of  the brazilian kind of music 0 ?choro? will be adequately sheltered.

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The building that houses the institute integrates an architectural set of great cultural interest for the city of Rio de Janeiro and is implanted in a typical glebe of the center of the city, with dimensions of 10,00 m of front by 21,00 m of depth. A two storey floor planted in the period of predominance of Eclecticism an...