Architects:MAENA design conecta

Area :301 m²

Year :2021

Photographs :Alcindo Dedavid

Architecture Firm : MAENA design conecta

Project Team : Aline Palma, Michelle Raimann, Roberta Rammê, Júlia Carolina Zielke e Manuella Oliveira Haygertt

Clients : ABF developments

Engineering : Andora Engenharia

Landscape Design : Fernando Thunm

Consultants : Ana Cristina Costi, PROINST Engenharia- projeto de PPCI

Collaborators : Contemporânea Online

City : Porto Alegre

Country : Brazil

Designing the new headquarters for ABF Developments was full of invigorating challenges. The first one was to represent a groundbreaking innovative company, focused on designing real estate properties that correspond directly to the customers’ needs and longings. Assuring that this rigorous public felt connection to the project’s language was one of the main purposes of the intriguing and appealing design and shape in the urban landscape.

The neighborhood where the building stands is predominantly residential, with houses built many years ago, without a distinctive design character, so the second challenge was to create a building with a change provoking design but also fully integrated to it’s surroundings. Lastly, there was the need to combine all of these design needs to the multiple functionality of having administrative headquarters and the business and sales center for the projects that will be launched there, using a very narrow site to build it.