Architecture project developed by Pedro de Azambuja Varela and Renata Pinho.
The redesign of this apartment had to deal with specific issues: replace the existing floor, redesign the kitchen while keeping the laundry space, and create lots of storage room; while the bathrooms and master bedroom intervention is a welcome bonus to the essential.
Walls were remade out of carpentry work and house different solutions, from storage, to seating, partitioning and doors.
Playful solutions such as assymetric round holes substituing knobs, and a smiley face substituting a handle, are carved in a yellow closet which is the project’s inner core.
The kitchen is like a big flipping machine, with a replaceable counter, convertible laundry room and hidden storage in a clean layout
A unified flooring and the furnishing/replacement of walls with closets gives the feeling of a bigger, somewhat openspace.
The bathrooms have two different geometric themes: one round, the other triangular; while the master bedroom uses wood to complement IKEA furniture.
Some websites kindly published this work, where you can see plans, read articles and see more pictures by José Campos, including Dezeen, Yatzer, EuropaConcorsi or Archdaily.
You can also find artilces in paper magazines such as Azure, AIT, or arquitectura & construção.
Photos by José Campos