Project: Nube Apartment
Architecture: Nati Minas & Studio + Flipê Arquitetura
Lead Architects : Natália Minas, Gabriela Mestriner
Project Team: Julie Bennatar, Ana Luisa Lisboa, Pedro Pollo
Location: Jardim Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil
Area: 420 m2
Year: 2022
Photo Credits: Fran Parente
Like a suspended house on the edge of the Jardim Europa neighborhood, the Nube apartment emerges. The design aims to bring the wooded view into the daily lives of the inhabitants while embracing and understanding their habits and collections. Understanding the dynamics of the couple was the main focus during the layout development.
The kitchen seamlessly integrates with the dining room while offering scenes of privacy. The living room accommodates the large family, featuring a bar, cellar, home theater, and office. Furthermore, the design avoids repetition to ensure no room becomes obsolete. Everything exists out of necessity and is created with beauty.
We created walkways with CD shelves on the edge beams of the building’s structure. The quadrant repetition in carpentry permeates the edges and ceiling, sparking curiosity towards the double height of the living room and dressing the environment. Surrounded by windows, self-supporting elements add coziness to the apartment.
In the Nube Apartment, various materials and tones come together harmoniously. Additionally, the mixture of textures enriches the look and brings natural elements into the home, helping inhabitants reconnect with nature.
We experimented with rustic granite, using it for the entrance panel covered with a mimicked door, pediments connecting the dining room and kitchen, and steps of the staircase leading to the raw island in the kitchen and bar.
Using wood as a base for the floor and ceiling in the social areas brings thermal, acoustic, and tactile comfort. This choice makes the steps cozy and the living room lighter, with its neutral tone providing a welcoming feel.
To add touches of color, we used decoration and vegetation, incorporating landscaping in rustic pots based on stones designed for the location. The terracotta velvet adds warmth and contrasts with the black checkered ironwork. By balancing warm and cool elements, we created a rich sensory experience in the home.
