The Heritage Apartment emerges with the desire to inhabit a space where coziness is one of its pillars, for a family with a core of 4 people, being the parents and two teenage children. Besides being a place to welcome friends and family. Being a single apartment per floor with a privileged view of the city of São Paulo;
Project Name: Heritage apartment
Studio Name: Guilherme Torres
Photography: Denilson Machado (MCA Studio)
With an area of 570 m², the apartment is designed with two zones, the social zone and the intimate zone. In the social zone, the integration between the living room and the balcony takes center stage, transforming into a large living area, like a home theater. The integrated living room with the dining room and gourmet area, everything happens in the same space.
As for the kitchen, it’s isolated, as it has an industrial structure, with a large hood, designed for events and celebrations.
The intimate zone is comprised of five suites, one for each child, the couple’s suite, another that has received a new purpose, a game room, and another intended for guests. The couple’s master suite is the most spacious and has a large walk-in closet, and the couple has a bathroom each.
The service area is located at the back of the apartment, housing the kitchen, a half bath, and a wine cellar.
The project approaches materiality in an intriguing way, using two completely opposite materials that connect and integrate in a subtle and sophisticated manner. European oak wood, a light and soft material, in contrast with Basaltina stone, a harder material. Wood was mostly used in the intimate and social zones, aiming to maintain comfort.
The SH Apartment is a wood frame project in light wood, featuring natural oak on the floor, ceiling, and walls. A natural stone conglomerate is also used, but it’s not rustic; rather, it’s treated subtly with a refined, smooth, and light finish. This maintains the soft continuity provided by the wood.
In the entrance hall, black wood is used, so the individual enters a dark environment and follows the path towards the light, thus creating a poetic atmosphere between light and dark, and playing with lights and shadows.
The project aims to provide a sensation of a mountain house, with elements found in the comfort of wood and the rawness of the walls. Nothing less than an apartment with a homey feeling, and at the same time, it carries the duality of a city view, as if the observer were on a slope.
About Guilherme Torres
Founded in 2001, Studio Guilherme Torres develops projects in the most diverse areas, from architecture to design. This company is personified in the figure of its founder, a perfectionist. In his left arm, a great tattoo says, through the words extracted from a Daft Punk’s song, “work it, harder, better, faster, make it over”. This unofficial motto describes your ethics and commitment to quality that is readily apparent in your work.
Minimal details and palettes of rich but reserved materials that characterize his work are consistently applied in single-family homes, interior projects and retail projects
Balancing the rigorous aesthetics of architecture, a certain playful lightness can be found in the interior design of your projects. The crisp shapes and subtle surfaces provide a suitably quiet backdrop to the lively furniture inside, while carefully planned spaces benefit from astute attention to natural light.
Suspended volumes and few but notable lines are its trademarks that seek, in his projects, to investigate the limits of materials
