Project year: 2014
Project construction: 2014 – 2018
Area: 140m²
Location: R. Celso de Azevedo Marques – São Paulo, SP – Brazil
Photographs: Manuel Sá
Photographer`s Instagram: @omanuelsa
Architects in charge: Bruno Jin Young Kim, Carlos Eduardo Murgel Miller
Team: Claudia Kim Kim, Marina Novaes de Camillo
Lighting: Reka Iluminação
Woodwork: Visual Móbile
Furniture: Fernando Jaeger Atelier

about OITENTAEDOIS

Contact: contato@oitentaedois.com
Instagram: @coletivo.oitentaedois

oitentaedois is a collective based in São Paulo formed by artists, designers, and architects. Our practice is grounded on a multi-disciplinary and integrated perspective considering expertise in areas such as design, audio-visual, architecture, and graphic arts. We combine each area accordingly to the job needs, offering relevant and contemporary results.

about FIRMA

Contact: adm@firma-a.com
Instagram: @firma_arq

Firma is an architectural office based in São Paulo that specializes in private, institutional, and public projects. Most importantly, we believe that architecture is a process of synthesis and convergence, making teamwork, dialogue, and understanding of our clients’ needs the way to overcome pre-conceived forms and ideas. Our goal is to produce highly effective projects, regardless of their nature or scale. We focus on meeting the aspirations of each client while aligning with the demands of the contemporary world.

The living room has a light gray L-shaped sections sofa that matches the light gray area rug underneath.

A few steps from the light gray sofa is the dining area with a dark wooden dining set that matches the dark hardwood flooring.

This is a closer look at the dark wooden dining set that makes the white cushions of the chairs stand out. These are then topped with pendant lights.

This is a look at the living room and the family room from the vantage of the dining table. You can see here that there is a concrete wall in between them.

The light gray sectional sofa and light gray area rug stand out against the dark hardwood flooring contrasted by the bright beige ceiling.

This view of the living showcases the wooden cabinets at the dining area on the far side that are now opened. These are contrasted by the dark hardwood flooring.

A few steps behind the light gray sofa is the kitchen with two large wooden structures flanking a kitchen island in the middle.

The wooden structures also house the stainless steel appliances like the fridge that was placed on the corner.

This is a close look at the modern wooden cabinetry on the side of the kitchen island that houses the cooking area.

This is a close look at the dining area topped with pendant lights and a built-in shelving on the far wall paired with a large cabinets on the side.

This is a look at the bathroom from the vantage of the wooden door and wall making the white tiles of the bathroom stand out.

This is a close look at the bathroom with white subway tiles on the walls contrasted by the dark flooring.

The bathroom has a modern floating wooden two-sink vanity topped with a round mirror.

This is a close look at the kitchen with wooden tones on its cabinetry and kitchen island contrasted by the dark hardwood flooring.

This is a view of the living room showcasing the L-shaped sectional sofa and the floating shelves on the far wall that match the cabinetry on the far corner.

A few steps from the living room and dinig room is a wooden cushioned arm chair with a foot stool as reading nook.

This is a close look at the cushioned bench across from the L-shaped sectional sofa that contrasts the dark hardwood flooring.

This is an illustration of the floor plan depicting the original walls of the house.

This is the illustrative representation of the floor plan of the house.

These are illustrative representations of the floor plan of the house along with instructions of the renovation.

Apartment renovation in Mooca neighborhood, located in the city of São Paulo – Brazil originally designed by the Brazillian architect David Libeskind, in the ’60s.

We were commissioned by a grandfather and grandmother to renovate the apartment where they grew their children for more than 35 years.

The apartment had received many small modifications throughout the decades resulting in a space without coherence, as it is common to many Brazillian homes.

Since the children had now grown up and left home, the couple wished that the apartment could be appropriate for them to live their old years and to enjoy the visit of their grandchildren.

The project was a long process of reflection and discoveries with the clients that went on for about 4 years from the first drafts until the conclusion of the renovation.

We took advantage of the fact that there is only one beam crossing the apartment to create a wide-open space, and the layout was thought to create a comfortable space for the couple and to receive the visit of the whole family.

The dining table, also traditionally used for studying, playing, and talking was positioned in the center of the apartment while the other rooms were positioned around it.

After the renovation was finished, the couple remarked that the higher presence of natural light, ventilation, and the wider view of the city`s skyline brings them a feeling of calm and lightness.

The process of developing the project also helped the clients to rethink their way of living towards a life with less material assets. This wish that they had served as a guide to all decisions made in the project.