Studio Gameiro has designed the interior of the Arriba apartment in the coastal town of Caparica, Portugal, using local stone and drawing on wooden fishing huts for inspiration.
The fit-out of the two-bedroom apartment, located inside a building from the 1980s, was designed to reference the coastal area of Caparica.
The interior of the Arriba apartment is decorated in sandy colours
"The interior colour palette and texture was inspired by the beautiful coastline of Caparica, a unique fossil-rock formation along the coast with sandy and terracotta hues," studio founder Jo?o Gameiro told Dezeen.
"This natural and protected area south of Lisbon has a particular and playful way of changing with light, and it is also almost poetically embedded in our childhood memories of long summer holidays, as it was the first seaside area close to the big city." Studio Gameiro wanted the interior to reference its surroundings
The sandy hues of the Caparica cliffs influenced the colour palette of the apartment, which is filled with beige and tan hues and named Arriba for the Portuguese word for cliff.
Studio Gameiro also referenced the 70-square-metre apartment's surroundings through its choice of materials, designing wooden kitchen cabinets in a nod to local fishing boats.
The two-bedroom apartment has an open-plan kitchen
"The use of wood for the low kitchen cabinets relates to the [area's] fishing huts, which are characterised by vertical or horizontal lines of wood...