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This modernist building organized arround a kind of “core” composed of social elevators, toilet, service circulation and central ventilation and lighting as well. The main circulation of the apartment occurs naturally around this central “core”, and because of the importance of this element, we began to think about the composition of materials of the place by it. We then sectorized the apartment programs by different materials, giving this core the spotlight.
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The building in which the apartment is located is surrounded by green areas. Facing the social area, there is the Buenos Aires Square and on the intimate area side is the Vilaboim Square, two important green areas of Higienópolis, a traditional São Paulo neighborhood.
Guided by this two squares, the renovation aimed to amplify this green view, with the suppression of several original walls and the choice of low furniture to the social area, we brought the view to the inside of the apartment.
The apatment's core was coated with greenish patinated copper plates. Between the plates, thin metal plates anchored to the walls and inserted between the copper plates become a bookcase that runs through the social and service area, organizing the doors of elevators, toilet, encompassing the wine cellar and becoming a support furniture of the kitchen area.
A large wooden element, with unevenness, as a “volume within the apartment space” was designed to organize office, TV room and intimate room for the daily life of the family. This volume, fully clad in oak, has sliding doors in Freijó muxarabi that can be fully opened or closed depending on the occasion and create an everyday dynamic that changes the appearance of the social area.
The rest of the social area, kitchen and multipurpose space is finished in basalt plates that surround the pillars and protrude from the floor creating volumes with landscaping that embrace the dining room. These volumes also arrange the large open central island of the kitchen which is finished with planned stainless steel furniture.
The result of the project is a very integrated space, fluid, with materials and furniture that we consider timeless for a perennial project, but that houses layout changes with ease without losing the general characteristics of the intervention. A house that is not tied to fads and ages worthily, in the same way as the wonderful building in which it is inserted.
The apartment furniture was established primarily as a kind of beginning of collection for the owners, almost all of them of Brazilian design, from modernists to contemporaries. We established an organization for different spaces; for social living, in basalt and more austere we seek to use wooden furniture and avoid furniture with a more industrial aspect, already in intimate being, wrapped in wood flooring, more upholstered and comfortable furniture.
Created in 1999, FGMF produces contemporary architecture, without restraints regarding the use of material and building techniques, seeking to explore the connection between architecture and its environment. In these few years of existence, we’ve had the opportunity to deal with a wide range of architectural scales and programs, what enhances our belief that, just as life itself, architecture ought to be plural, heterogeneous and dynamic. Urban design, cultural facilities, residences, sports facilities, hospitals, schools, commercial buildings and many other are part of the same urban landscape and of our daily life: knowing how to deal with all these programs is a way to enrich our design, in contrast to a specialized architecture. Based on the professional and academic experience of its associates, FGMF has an innovative and inventive approach. There are no pre-conceived formulae: at every challenge we start from scratch, using design as a research tool.
