A hyper-connected home that prioritizes sustainable solutions and transforms an icon of São Paulo’s modern architecture into a flexible and reconfigurable habitat. The Terrace Apartment project seeks to meet the demands of new ways of living by combining architecture, innovation, and sustainability boldly and strikingly. A flexible floor plan allows the movement of walls or pieces of furniture, and includes an active participation of the resident in its constant resetting. A long-suspended flower box crosses all the integrated environments and draws, together with the floor vases and pendants, a private biome.
The residents wanted to live in an apartment with a balcony. As this building didn’t offer this possibility, but as it has a glass facade, floor-to-ceiling, they decided to transform the entire apartment into a balcony. It is occupied by different species of plants, many of them native to Brazil. Automation combined with biophilic design results in an optimized responsive house that can be controlled virtually, allowing the setting of different scenarios and maintenance of the long-suspended flower box that creates a specific microclimate, reducing high temperatures and improving air quality, important premises in a city like São Paulo. The coverings and material choice favored national products with certification seals.
