The apartment is designed to be the perfect home for the childhood of the family's daughters

A project designed to be the childhood home of the daughters. This was one of the main requests of the residents - a couple with two young daughters - made to architects Mariana Maria Portillo and Pedro Pantoja, from the office BRIC Arquitetura (from the cast of CASACOR Rio de Janeiro) and Portillho and Pantoja Architects for their new home, a 120 m² apartment in Ipanema (RJ). The new apartment is next door to the property where the clients previously rented and underwent an intense renovation to adapt to the residents' lifestyle. The original layout had one bathroom less and the kitchen was quite tight. With the renovation, the rooms were redistributed to have three full bathrooms, a spacious service area - with "catification" and a bathroom for the cats Isaquias and Ceará - and a kitchen integrated with the living room. “Our main goal in all projects is to achieve spaciousness and free circulation space, because life happens in the voids. It is on the floor that the child sits to play, in the corridors of the house that the family greets each other and hugs,” reflects Mariana. Since this will be the apartment of the daughters' childhood, elements that refer to experimentation and playful forms were worked on. “Under the skylight in the couple's bedroom, we created a large closet and a multi-use space, where they keep books, work, and spend quality time with the children. We also had the idea to open the kitchen from the beginning, imagining the family having breakfast around the round table integrated with the living room,” Pedro says.

(Fotos: Juliano Colodeti, do MCA Estúdio / Produção visual: Legado Rio/Divulgação)

The proposal continues in the children's room, with montessori beds and a large play area. The wallpaper, called petit bric, was designed by the architects. “We worked on a children's room and not a childish one, bringing in playful, feminine shapes, works of art, warmth, and joy,” Mariana describes.

(Fotos: Juliano Colodeti, do MCA Estúdio / Produção visual: Legado Rio/Divulgação)

The duo worked mainly with raw materials and white color, exploring textures and the arrangement of elements to create an identity in the project. Among the highlights, the wooden floors that were removed to enlarge the wet areas were treated one by one and replaced in the baseboards, alternated with white pieces, creating a striped pattern that transitions between the floor and the wall. Another striking element is the perforated partition between the living room and the kitchen, made with small bricks and painted white, which gives the idea of a cobogó wall. In the couple's bedroom, a strip of the wall covered with original tiles found during demolition was preserved. Regarding the furniture composition, some pieces from the clients' collection were kept, such as the sofa, rocking chair, and hammocks, "an essential item in the house of a resident from Ceará,” according to the resident. Among the new pieces, the highlights include the side table (next to the sofa) by Celina Zilberberg, the Magrini bench by Sérgio Rodrigues, and the rocking chair from Liceu de Artes e Ofício. About the white concrete bench, sculpted in place, the Jaca and Graviola vase, by ceramist Hanna Englund, and the sculpture Inês, by ceramist Maria Alice Salgado, catch the eye. On the walls of the living room, one of the highlights of the project is the colorful and striking tapestry from Apara Studio, and, on the opposite side, the composition of six small Naïf-style works by artist Chico Flores. In the children's room, the large giraffe-shaped sculpture by artist Marcos Scorzelli aims to "mature" in the decoration alongside the house, as it can be used in other contexts. "All our projects are usually created as a blank canvas for the client to fill the house with their own story," Mariana concludes.

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