Excerpt: Vila Nova Apartment, a refurbishment project by Fcstudio, rethinks the home around the new owner’s way of living. Walls were suppressed and spaces integrated to increase the social area and create greater flexibility. A large woodwork panel organizes the apartment and enhances the social space, while architecture, lighting, and furniture design work together to create harmony throughout the interior.
Project Description
[Text as submitted by architect] The Vila Nova apartment project, located in São Paulo city, Brazil, was ordered by a businesswoman who had just bought the property from a family. Thereway, for the big difference in its needs and lifestyles, our project was requested. We suppressed the walls and integrated the spaces so that the new owner could perform her daily activities. The project was developed after we understood the particularities of her personality and her way of living.
Before, there was a TV room separated from the living room, the kitchen was closed and the social area was small. The project increased the social area by eliminating strategic walls, integrated the social area with the kitchen and also transformed two bedrooms into one large bedroom, more in line with the new need.
A large woodwork panel expands the space horizontally and makes clear that through this single gesture, the apartment organizes itself and enhances the social space. Perpendicular to the panel, there is the shelf where the TV is, as an important color element in the composition. The lighting reaffirms the design intentions, once was designed with the woodwork and layout.
In addition to the architecture, we designed two pieces for this space: the Filo table and the Brasília coffee table. All of them take in consideration the proportion and materiality of the interior proposal, varying in marble, wood and corten steel. The type of wood and marble are commonly used in Brazil. In terms of design, the pieces of furniture created also allude to the national scene.
The Brasília table, for example, is inspired by the urban conformation of the Brazilian capital, while the Filo table encapsulates the essence of nature through design where the texture of the wood of the top evokes the tactile sensation of tree leaves and their ribbing in different directions from a central line, and the feet are a representation of the tree stems of our natural ecosystem.
Thereway, we enhance the spatial integration, flexibility of spaces and Harmony of whole, relying on architecture, lighting and furniture design.
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