French-Brazilian architecture studio Triptyque has completed an 85-metre-tall residential tower in São Paulo that offers its occupants indoor-outdoor living.
The 24-storey building is part of the Onze22 development, which includes a smaller adjacent structure. In the residential tower, balconies wrap the building on three sides, allowing apartments to extend outdoors.
Onze22 is an 85-metre-high residential development
Triptyque aimed to offer "total fluidity between exterior and interior", a quality that is not typical in high-rise homes.
It did this by combining floor-to-ceiling glazing with concrete floorplates that project out from the building volume.
Overhanging floorplates provide expansive balconies
This means apartments can be completely opened up on at least one side, allowing living spaces to merge with covered balconies that range from widths of seven to 22 metres. The balconies are interspersed with sv vertical semi-opaque shading screens and some of these balconies integrate planting along the edges.
"Each point on the balcony invites you to observe São Paulo, providing endless views and, at the corners, the possibility of letting your gaze go in different directions," said Triptyque co-founder Gui Sibaud.
Planting lines the edges of some balconies
Onze22 is the fourth project that the Paris- and São Paulo-based studio has designed for Brazilian housing developer Idea!Zarvos.
Known for its innovative approach, the developer often works wi...