Young, single, businessman and DJ. The owner of this
apartment, located in the West side of São Paulo, wanted to keep living near
his company and at the same time grant his new house all the modernity that
represents this moment of his life.
The property, a typical apartment of the 80’s, was
literally put down and rebuilt from scratch. All partitions, that limited the
rooms, were removed. The toilets and two bedrooms were kept for structural reasons.
Some windows were also eliminated, to create the concept of a box in which the
ilumination plus wall and floor coverings would create a three-dimensional
effect, like in a night club.
All the ilumination was designed using leds, featuring
no other ight source in the whole apartment. Besides the scenographic effect,
the ilumination presents a great energy saving combined with a high luminous
efficiency. The walls and ceiling were built with plasterboard and then covered
with polymer concrete.
The kitchen, integrated to the living room, occupies
the area that was previously designed for corridors and lavatory. All the woodwork
was designed by the architect and one of the great aspects of the project’s interior
design was the “high-low” effect, that is, great insights with very low costs.
For example, the DJ table, is actually an alluminium ladder that gained a new interpretation.
The whole furniture line follows an unassuming style, inspired in the 70’s.
The Master suite gained a bathtub integrated to the
sleeping area, a transgression more than welcome on this contemporary way of
living.