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Architects: Estúdio BRA Arquitetura
- Area: 130 m²
- Year: 2018
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Photographs:Maíra Acayaba
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Manufacturers: Brasil Imperial, Tauarí
Dwelling place designed for a young couple in São Paulo
This concerns to a reconfiguration of the original floor plan of Itamarati Building (Project: Ciro Ribeiro Pereira - 1953), regarding the future habitants, a young married couple.
Among the three existing bedrooms, two of them have been demolished.
The main interventions were the removal of a utility room to relocate the new laundry. And the old one has been changed to the new kitchen. At last, the living room assumed the place from part of what had once been a kitchen, giving space to a rectangular plan.
The program organization comes from a wooden box, which includes: dormitory, bathrooms, kitchen and laundry. This volume assumes a sensitive quality, once that it seems to be fitted in the previous space. Part of the box, set to the living room, has different features, among them: hidden office opened by accordion doors, support for air conditioning, coffee machine niches, a collection of handmade ceramic dishes; and finally, the doors that give access to the private part of the apartment.
The wooden box as well as the parallel bookcase, made by metallic sheets, have the same height and are located in the longitudinal direction of the space. Together, they attach visual comfort because of their proportions and direct the visitor's gaze to the treetops outside the building.
Predicting the possibility of a future baby, the living room was demarcated in a sensitive way, including distinct materiality in part of the floor, the burnt cement pigmented pink.
In the kitchen, the cobogó - a king of rolled brick - filters the sunshine with its shapes producing shadows on the floor. These ones were eternally printed on the floor, with amused pink granite circles.
