Situated in a 1962 constructing in São Paulo, the Terrace Residence is designed for contemporary occasions by Estudio Guto Requena. The Brazilian agency redesigned the condo into one full of versatile and reconfigurable areas that adapt for various makes use of. To satisfy the proprietor’s request of getting a balcony in a constructing with out them, they remodeled the entire condo to really feel like an indoor/outside house with crops all through, even hanging from the ceiling.
Together with the bodily transformation, the designers included new digital applied sciences, like a home administration system that may be managed by way of smartphone, sensible keypads, or voice instructions. All the things from entry to the condo, lighting, irrigation, audio/video, curtains, and many others. is automated for comfort.
The kitchen is entry by way of massive pivoting doorways that may both open the 2 areas up or hold them separate.
Every room incorporates biophilic design with an array of crops in every house. Along with crops cascading down from the hanging pot rack and within the home windows within the kitchen, a tiled plant mattress with herbs resides within the nook.
A two-sided couch creates two sitting areas in the primary lounge. Alongside the window aspect of the house is quite a lot of potted and hanging crops, whereas on the opposite aspect, a suspended plant field homes greenery that spreads throughout the ceiling over the dwelling house. The quantity and number of crops creates a particular microclimate which helps cut back excessive temperatures and improves air high quality.
In the lounge, a projector and 120″ display screen doubles as a workspace assembly room with built-in digicam and microphone for work calls. When used for pleasure, the wall acts as a digital gallery displaying NFTs the residents personal. On social gathering days, among the furnishings strikes to create a dance flooring with reactive audio lighting connected to the planter bins.
The furnishings are an eclectic combine from iconic designers, resembling Maarten Baas, Antonio Citterio, Yrjo Kukkapuro, Le Corbusier, Jasper Morrison, and Frank Gehry, together with famous Brazilian designers, together with Sérgio Rodrigues, Jean Gillon, Irmãos Campana, Zanine Caldas, and Lina Bo Bardi, and eventually up-and-coming Brazilian designers, like Guilherme Wentz, Ronald Sasson, Daniel Jorge, Lucas Neves, Carol Homosexual, Jacqueline Terpins, Ovo Design, PAX Arq, and Alva Design. To high issues off, the architects, Estudio Guto Requena, created numerous items used within the design.
A versatile flooring plan permits for the lounge, eating room, workplace, and bed room areas, that are all aligned, to be all open to one another, all closed off, or a combination as desired for the day’s actions. Acoustic glass sliding doorways and automatic curtains part off the areas when needing extra privateness.
To enrich the wood panels on the outside for the constructing, the agency acquired authentic drawings from the Botti and Rubin workplace, the unique designers of the constructing. They scanned them and with the assistance of algorithms, they have been in a position to recreate the graphic sample on wooden surfaces on the inside. The patterned wooden surfaces mark transitions the place areas go from the general public areas to the extra non-public ones.
A flex house in between the eating room and bed room acts as a house workplace and seating space. An elongated desk and lamp, which pivot, are comprised of the previous wooden flooring faraway from the condo. The setup permits for higher views out the window or for DJs that play at their events.
The principle bed room may be closed off for privateness or watching films on the projector.
Extra pivoting, patterned wooden doorways open the primary bed room as much as the closet and loo.
Pictures by Maíra Acayaba.
