BUILT
SÃO PAULO – SP, 2023
The renovation project for this apartment in the Cuiabá building, designed by architect Rubens de Camargo Monteiro, initially aimed to increase the social area and better connect the kitchen with the dining room. The original project, which was excessively compartmentalized, had a pantry between the kitchen and the living room, the service bathroom was very small, there was only one suite and there was a central vestibule to the apartment that divided the flow in the social area in half. Once the analysis was done, we removed one of the bedrooms to create a TV room connected to the living room, removed the vestibule from the social entrance so that the elevator opens directly into the living room, removed the pantry and connected the kitchen to the dining room through sliding doors, enlarged the suite by removing one of the service rooms and by encompassing part of the circulation, we created a toilet and despite all these changes, we kept the original wooden floors throughout the apartment.
The existing solid ipe floor, laid in a double fish scale format, was preserved and restored. The plaster on the perimeter walls was removed to expose the original solid brick. The exposed slab was also treated to restore the concrete. In the kitchen and bathrooms we used granilite made on site for the floors and worktops.
Authors:
Daniel Mangabeira, Henrique Coutinho e Matheus Seco
Team: Luís Alcântara
Projecto: 2022
Construction: 2022-2023
Photos: Maíra Acayaba
