Intestine-renovating this São Paulo condo has allowed Brazilian studio Pascali Semerdjian Arquitetos to include the personalities of it occupants, significantly within the bedrooms of the household’s two youngsters.
The Aurora Condominium is house to a household of 4, and sits on a personal road within the Alto de Pinheiros neighbourhood to the west of the town.
A complete overhaul of the residence was wanted to open up its areas, carry in additional mild, and incorporate new supplies and decor that replicate the house owners’ tastes.
With out full structural plans of the condo or constructing, the demolition course of revealed a number of hidden parts.
Solely when the condo had been totally stripped again to its naked bones was Pascali Semerdjian Arquitetos capable of design the ground plan to work across the construction.
“After we noticed the remaining columns and slabs, we have been capable of proceed sketching the consumer’s requirements in addition to our concepts onto paper,” stated the studio.
As soon as the structure was “settled”, the architects started to look at the partitions and house volumetrically to find methods so as to add attention-grabbing design moments that will reveal extra in regards to the household.
“Probably the most vital issues about this challenge is how each single house, each social and personal, has the household persona, with a novel design that ends in concord with the entire,” stated Pascali Semerdjian Architects.
The condo is split into a big, open social house that is often used for internet hosting enterprise assembly and dinners, and a personal space that incorporates the bedrooms and loos.
“We needed to create two universes in the identical condo: an intimate and comfy one, and one other minimalist and social,” the studio stated.
Darkish wooden panelling traces the entryway, concealing a storage space for keys and footwear, and the identical floor-to-ceiling wooden panels are used within the nook of the eating room. Right here, a hidden door swings open to disclose a bar, and a brass container constructed right into a plastered counter serves as a cooler for bottles.
Stone flooring within the residing space is laid in skinny planks to match the sample of the wood boards that run via the non-public areas.
A number of basic midcentury designs have been chosen for the residing house, together with Jean Prouvé eating chairs and a pair of salmon-coloured Ondine armchairs by Jorge Zalszupin.
These are blended in with up to date furnishings just like the Skinny Black aspect tables by Nendo and a leather-based chaise by Studiopepe.
Quite a lot of furnishings and lighting items custom-designed by Pascali Semerdjian additionally function within the condo, similar to the principle couch, the workplace chairs, and the bar sconces.
There’s additionally a coat closet housed inside a gridded cupboard, which is affixed to a mirror and incorporates a cluster of sq. lights in its prime proper nook.
Within the non-public quarters, the first suite is minimally completed in white and wooden surfaces, whereas the youngsters’s rooms are rather more expressive.
For instance, the youthful son’s room is designed to resemble a small home, shaped from wooden panelling that covers the partitions and is pitched on the ceiling.
His mattress and a settee are raised to create house for a “hide-and-seek” tunnel beneath, whereas the older daughter’s room contains arched white closets.
“We search to carry originality to all rooms, with particular consideration to the youngsters’s room, the place we have pursued options which can be near playful, with out exaggeration,” Pascali Semerdjian stated.
The renovation work started through the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, so particular consideration was paid to creating multifunctional areas.
“The challenge seeks to steadiness and convey fluidity between the totally different potential makes use of of a home, permitting residents to expertise moments collectively in addition to the opportunity of having privateness, together with the couple,” stated the architects.
Pascali Semerdjian Arquitetos was based by Domingos Pascali and Sarkis Semerdjian in 2010, and the studio has renovated many residences throughout São Paulo.
They embrace a residence imbued with a “deeply Brazilian and vividly cosmopolitan” flavour and a house organised round a semi-circular wood library.
The images is by Fran Parente.
Mission credit:
Mission and interiors: Pascali Semerdjian Architects
Workforce: Sarkis Semerdjian, Domingos Pascali, Ana Luisa Cunha, Fernando Spnola
Manufacturing: VC Art work
Execution: S Macedo Engenharia
