Architect：Zalc Arquitetura (Rafael Zalc)

Location：São Paulo, Brazil; | ;

Project Year：2019

Category：Apartments

The project was developed for a family that wanted to have a timeless and functional apartment. We maintain the original bathrooms with excellent finishes and coatings, and also the wooden floor that was already delivered throughout the apartment which gave us the possibility to focus the investment in the social area and bedrooms.

Despite being a new building, the apartment has the same large windows that the modernist buildings of the neighborhood Higienopolis/Santa Cecilia usually has, which allows a good circulation and cross ventilation from one room to another, making the use of air conditioning less necessary.

The original kitchen was too small and did not attend the needs of the clients and that’s why this area was one of the biggest adaptations made to the blueprint.

The main highlight of the apartment is the social hall. It already impresses upon arrival with the wooden muxarabi on a green background and with the lighting created through the tensioned screen on the side, causing the impression of having the light of a real window. On the main wall we used the tactile floor tile in a light gray color, normally used on sidewalks for the visually impaired. The tile integrates all the environments of the social area.