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Architects: CoDA Arquitetura
- Area: 60 m²
- Year: 2023
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Photographs:Julia Tótoli
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Manufacturers: Acervo, Antunes Armários e Cozinhas, Ladrilharia, Paulo Sérgio, WS marmoraria
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Lead Architects: Pedro Grilo, Gabriel Monteiro
Text description provided by the architects. The Fit Apartment deviates from the standard of most residential projects already carried out by the office, with a completely integrated character: Except for the bathroom, all walls have been eliminated, creating a continuous circulation throughout the social area, kitchen, office, and master bedroom. The proposal came from the owners' desire to create a sensation of more spaciousness in the 60 sqm apartment.
The pandemic changed most people’s relationship with their living space, and a new habit acquired by clients was exercising at home. Thus, even with the relatively small apartment, an important premise for the project was versatility - to allow various uses throughout the apartment, including physical exercise. This demand also required the appropriate storage for all equipment used.
The demolition went through the entire apartment, revealing the beautiful texture of the concrete slab, an important element in the color and texture palette. This palette was defined based on a painting that the client received from her aunt, which occupies a prominent position in front of the dining table. The pink hydraulic tile flooring highlights this element, and the blue in the apartment came as one of the subtones of the painting. The result was a colorful and cozy space, with the use of pastel tones.
The exposed beams reveal the points where the original walls have been demolished. However, as mentioned, the bathroom was maintained, forming a central core where the hydraulics are installed, with laundry, and kitchen around it, and free circulation around it.
In the sleeping accommodations, the couple's bed can be retracted inside a wardrobe, reinforcing the space’s flexibility. The bed area then gives room for circulation and exercise practice, along with the floor-to-ceiling installed bars used for this purpose.
The storage space of the "bedroom area" blends with the other walls of the apartment, extending along the one that houses it. Its shape creates a rhythm of coming and going by forming the workbench which, also seeking versatility, has different height possibilities through the notches made in the carpentry.
The final product was an apartment that’s far from the obvious and, even though small, becomes spacious through its wide and integrated circulation.
