AMRA7 Apartment, São Paulo Home Interior, Brazilian Residence Redesign, SP Property Images
AMRA7 Apartment in São Paulo
27 July 2020
AMRA7 Apartment Interior
Architecture: Bruno Rossi Arquitetos + Piratininga Arquitetos
Location: SP, Brasil, South America

A large mashrabiya ? featuring windows with wooden trusses, an Iberian heritage typical of Brazilian architecture, draws your attention on Alameda Ministro Rocha Azevedo, near Avenida Paulista in São Paulo. It is a residential building designed in 1964 by the architects Alberto Botti and Marc Rubin, both partners at Botti & Rubin Associated Architects.

The twenty-six-meter-long façade with exposed concrete beams and columns emphasizes the building technique and plasticity of the concrete. Internally, large glass panels frame the urban landscape, allowing for the enjoyment of natural lighting and ventilation, while light can be controlled by closing the wooden trusses.
The structural design exposed on the facade continues its narrative inside the apartment. The demolition of the ceiling revealed the beauty of the modular concrete beam grid system. The grid forms a twelve-meter-long span and opens into a sequence of 15 porches.

Our interpretation of the original 320sqm surface identified two wings: the bedrooms and social areas look out to the street, while the wet areas such as bathrooms, utilities, and the kitchen are in the back.

Most of the demolition work took place in those wet areas, changing and openi...