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Architects: Estúdio BRA Arquitetura
- Area: 61 m²
- Year: 2019
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Photographs:Maura Mello
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Manufacturers: AutoDesk, Brasil Imperial, Portobello, Rutra Marcenaria
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Lead Architects: André Di Gregorio / Rodrigo Maçonilio
Text description provided by the architects. The apartment came to us with the following spatial distribution: integrated entrance hall, living room, kitchen and laundry, a bedroom, a bathroom, a suite, and finally a balcony connecting the environments. Gathering the wishes from the future dweller, we notice some issues to him. Among them, he wanted to separate laundry and kitchen, and increase the number of wardrobes in the master bedroom, opposing the builder proposal.
To achieve this, the next solutions were adopted in the project: since that the integrated laundry shared the same wall with the bathroom, we proposed a furniture with divided functions between the two environments, also reversing the position of access, to a hidden doors panel inside the bathroom, discovered only during use, isolating it from the living area. Already in the kitchen-facing niches are the microwave and coffee machine.
Regarding the wardrobe, the drywall closure was eliminated giving place to the desired furniture that now belongs to the guest's room, splits into two rows of shelves, each one facing a different room. Natural elements and handcrafted textures are present in all spaces. The volume that stores the bedroom was painted with a gray mineral pigment and is embraced by the floor/ceiling, both in Tauarí wood.
The same ceiling demarcates in a sensory way the boundaries of the living room. A metal shelf runs through the apartment, from the top of the entrance hall to the kitchen and all over the living room wall, bundling several ways of use: object display, plants, bar, tv set, drawers and magazine rack. Along the stretch that runs through the kitchen is a support for spices and ceramics, besides this, softly keeps the debugger.
The kitchen island, built-in loco, had been lined with hydraulic tiles, a handcrafted material. The same material appears with different patterns in both bathrooms. In the balcony, a large designed carpentry couch extends through most of the environment. Finally, the suite received a headboard made with demolition wood, painted and skated alluding to the wood of boats that sail through Salvador - BA, the hometown of the resident.