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.
Located in Porto Alegre, southern Brazil, this work constitutes a single-family residence on a plot of 779.19 square meters. An extensive lake located at the end of the terrain, the irregular plot design, the East-West longitudinal orientation and the need for a large protected social area were the issues that guided the resolutions of this project.
The building, designed by the Cantergiani + Kunze architects office, houses two duplex units of 100m2, with double-height ceilings, apparent concrete finishes, and integrated environments. The solar orientation influenced the distribution of the spaces, such as the position of the living room and kitchen, facing southeast in a glazed façade. A set of metallic brises, re-reading the old muxarabis, offers some protection when the summer sun hits the façade and serves as a visual filter in the kitchen area.
House located in a high-end gated community in the southern district of Porto Alegre, Brazil. The program is divided in three floors for a couple with two children who enjoy having friends over for parties and celebrations.
The underground level has technical rooms, staff rooms and parking for 40 cars – in fact, it’s a small museum for the owner’s antique car collection. The ground floor has a huge open space with living and dining rooms, a home office, a home theater and the kitchen. Large sliding doors make it possible to hide or completely open the home theater and the kitchen to the living room. A separate building houses a space for entertainment and parties. The second floor has four en-suite bedrooms.
The idea of renovating the 1917 townhouse and make it Hype Studio’s new headquarters came in the end of 2015. It seemed like the perfect place to put into practice the concepts we believe and pursue in our work.
It was the opportunity to create a work space integrated with the vibrant urban life of Cidade Baixa, a bohemian neighborhood deeply connected with Hype Studio’s history.
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.
ATUM is a shared workspace that focuses is the quality of life at work. Designed in an area of 200 square meters, inside a mall, the space has as its theme the flexibility of different uses. All furniture was designed and thought to be changeable. During the day the scenario is a co-working and at the night it turns into a space to host events and lectures. The concept of quality of life was explored through creating different visuals for each workstation. Some tables were positioned facing windows with the park view, the other stations were proposed in a concept of green islands, whose plants are a mobile core surrounded by stands of different heights forming a modular composition. A natural wooden bookcase with 25m length serves as a background to the space. Different formats of workstations and lounges set the scene generating a timeless and innovated ambiance. Parallel to the bookshelf, a black linear block has been created with individual rooms, meeting room, support area and a mini gallery that serves to demarcate the main entrance. The layout designed aimed the sharing environments bringing a new way of working within a commercial space.
The America apartment was designed as a residence for a couple. The project sought to create a smooth transition providing the greatest possible integration between social-use and private-use environments. In order to achieve this, two main strategies were used: division of social and private functions in different floors and use of structures and furniture that provide flexibility and lightness in the division of spaces. In addition to the unconventional space organization, the client requested the use of residential automation technologies. In this way, the design challenge was established, which consisted in allying spaces and technology in a harmonic and discrete way.
Perro Libre produce craft beers and have called us to create an innovative design with a system of 10 taps integrat-ed with ipads and card reader. The customer arrives, checks in and credits a value, thereby releasing the chopp taps.
The concept we created was to make a cool space, creative and different.
The building is located in the city of Porto Alegre. The traditional neighborhood is going through a transition process – the old houses are given way to small and medium sized buildings. The site is located on a corner with a very interesting view of the city and the airport. However, being at a high altitude level, it is strongly influenced by the municipality laws.
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