Article source: David Guerra Arquitetura e Interiores
The design for Marília Fit aims to grant healthy meals, from breakfast to dinner, in a cozy, and refreshing space, making people feel better. The walls are filled by a structure of rectagular wooden boxes, in diferente sizes and permeabilities, which are responsible to compose the interior of the store, in a clear reference to the public market and all it’s smells and flavours. The same concept is verified on the facade in yellow aluminum. The chosen color highlights the store, strengthening the relation with the sun, the summer, and the related joy inherent to it. The yellow allied with the green from the back wall, as well as the blue from the couch and red from the chairs denotes a solid relation to nature. The italian earthen toned floor gives the feeling of cozyness and relaxation. The lighting, designed by the architect, plays with arrays of light in various directions. Another highlight are the Gerbar brass fans, which are very effective with minimum echoing. The dark gray and black chosen for some walls endorse the more vivid colors as well as the wood. Marília Fit is a space created as an invitation for a high class experience at eating and welfare.
The project of two houses, located in the municipality of Tibau do Sul, is inserted in an irregular terrain of 642m² on a slope that dominates the amazing views to the Guaraíras Lagoon and the spectacular dunes of Malemba beach – a fragment of northeastern desert where only the kitesurfers and the fishermen enjoy their enormous extensions of virgin sand.
The starting point of this project was the analysis of the feasibility of maintaining the original construction in the lot, considering a deep reform, or the complete demolition to build a new residency.
After studying the brief desired by the future residents, the implantation of the old house and the analysis of the structural system of the existing construction that did not allow great interventions, we concluded that we would achieve a better result considering the conception of a new residence.
Location: São Paulo, SP (biggest city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil)
Photography: Maira Acayaba, Matheus Ribeiro
Software used: ArchiCAD
Architecture and Lighting Design: DMDV arquitetos – André Dias Dantas, Bruno Vitorino, Renato Dalla Marta, Maíra Baltrusch, Rafhael Silva, Fernanda Miguel, Victor Vernaglia, Aline Pinheiro, Ronielle Laurentino and Fabiana Kalaigian. (authors)
BEBECÊ is a famous women shoe company in Brazil. Once a year the company launches their winter collection at Zero Degrees fair in one of the best Brazilian site for tourists called Gramado, in the extreme south of Brazil.
Our That Design team was hired again to project and build their 156m2 in the main street of the fair, in a way that retailers would feel invited to visit the stand and buy their products for the next season.
This apartment is one of the many forgotten penthouses of 1950s São Paulo. The apartmemt absorbs both floor-plans of the two apartments per floor of this small building in Santa Cecília, each one with 60 square meters, and organizes the space in a fashion that is curious for the time in which it was constructed.
After being closed for 20 years, the owners bought not just the apartment, but the promise of a fight for the necessary renovations, which would be structural and require much patience and planning. All the building’s water piping was in the walls (and there was no record of the piping, so it was necessary to track it down) and to meet the requirements of the owners, this piping needed to be updated and moved, so that the apartment’s spaces could interact.
The Group of Benzina Bar, a SuperLimão client also in other projects, was one of the pioneers in implementing the Fast Casual system in Brazil. The idea for the Benzina Bar project, that is located in São Paulo, was to create a young, interesting and at the same time an empowering environment for the customer to have the free will to come and go at the bar.
In the house worked an old pub with well compartmentalized areas and that already had undergone a series of reforms, which ended up leaving him without identity. At the same time, the facade of the property has strong lines and expressive angles, which were taken as an architectural objective for its new design. In addition, several openings were made in the frames so that the interior and exterior were integrated.
The conceptualization of the Núcleo space arises from the brainstorm on the theme ‘Casa Viva’ (live home), bringing premises such as exchange, dialogue, coexistence and convergence.
Conceived through curves that embrace and lead visitors, the flowing and at the same time centralizing form integrates harmoniously into the environment. Its sinuosity in two dimensions gains strength and sharpness through its gradation of height in the third dimension and it is along its course that its different uses are developed.
In order to guarantee the protagonism of the central element, a homogeneous surface envelope is created, acting as a second skin, solving both functional and aesthetic demands.
Transcending the physical notion of space, Núcleo is therefore an experience to be lived and shared.
Founded in 2008 by the architects Mila Strauss and Marcos Paulo Caldeira, the MM18 Arquitetura office, located in São Paulo, became notorious due to its diversified portfolio composed by projects in different scales – urban interventions, restaurants and hangars retrofitting, commercial and corporative spaces. The architects are always in search for the best and most flexible solutions to respond to the demands. Some of their most famous projects are the Airbnb and Uber offices in São Paulo.
A wide, single storey house, which should be well illuminated, ventilated, opened to the garden and also have privacy from the neighbors. In addition, it should become two independent homes, one for the oldest son and the other for the rest of the family. These were the requestes from our clients when they searched for our office.
The UFO Store Project is a multifunctional space located in Canoas/RS, and it is ran by EXO Collaborative Intelligence. Designed to be an entrepreneurial platform, it aims at gathering different minds in a single environment of collective intelligence, allowing to boost the creation and development of upcoming business. Taking inspiration from European environments of co-working and innovation, it shows the predominance of Swedish and Scandinavian architecture, searching for what is yet unknown (thusly represented by UFO). Its intention is to abduct people, companies or events in a regular or seasonal basis.
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