Architects:Memola Estúdio, Vitor Penha

Area :570 m²

Year :2016

Photographs :Tuca Reinés

Manufacturers :  Otis, Amarante madeiras, Carbono, Deca, Decameron, Desmobilia, Dpot, FAS Iluminação, JMS, LKT, Labluz, Ladrilar, Lumini, Lustres ypiranga, Micasa, Museu do azulejo, Panisol, Poeira, Portwer, Primovidros, +10Prototype, RB Pisos, Reforça, Regatec, Reka Iluminação, Santil, Seiko, Solarium, Tramontina, Uniflex-10Otis

Authors : Vitor Penha, Verônica Molina, Simone Balagué, Ricardo Souza

Air Conditioning : Prorac

Cftv And Access Control : EPS Sistemas

Acoustic Consulting : Harmonia

Electrical : Green Projetos e Consultoria

Hydraulics : Green Projetos e Consultoria

Structure : Enplatec Projetos de Engenharia

Landscape : Rodrigo Oliveira

Execution Work : Grupo Lock Engenharia

City : São Paulo

Country : Brazil

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AKQA, an international advertising agency that planned to come to Brazil, commissioned Estúdio Penha to design a home-based office with the warmth and soul characteristic of our projects. There were many challenges, a house that should adapt to a great program of needs for its complete functioning: spaces for the clients conviviality, production, creators and all the support structure. However, its adaptation to the new reality required a horizontal and vertical enlargement.

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The architecture of the 70's townhouse was created by the former owner, with arches and massive brick walls that we wanted to preserve. The starting points were: to maintain the constructive memory that should be valued, to integrate the new volumes with the existing ones, to create a garden that permeates the whole house and to think about sustainable solutions of consumption.

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It was done a project where most of the rooms of the two floors were used. In the ground floor are the main areas of coustomers and support to them, in the external environment all the setbacks were used as permeable areas, creating a large garden around the house and in the background, where the old pool existed, a bleacher for projections of films and work presentations was projected. The main access made by a rusty iron box that gives to the reception and exhibition space has a triple ceiling height that goes up to the sloping ceiling and invites the visitor to a curious look upwards.

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The facade wall does not touch the ground, the vegetation passes underneath it creating the necessary lightness that balances with its height. The distribution hall to the meeting rooms also distributes the apparent pipes, all the infrastructure of the house and at the bottom of this, is the main meeting room - a new house volume, with dividers in glass frames that allow the contemplation of the garden from the reception.

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The new vertical circulation located where it was the old stairs of the house gained prominence to have leaked elemnts as steps and guardrails made in metallic screen, it is between window frames, one big window that has vision of the lateral garden and another one with sight for the internal patio. Still thinking about the integration between interior and exterior folding doors were used, which allow a greater opening, and consequently a visual and physical connection between the rooms and the garden.