Starting from two independent and neglected dwellings, the client's requirement was to concentrate the main living spaces on the mezzanine and expand them on the ground floor with other more flexible spaces.
The proposal is direct: amid the space, insert two 2-meter side squares rotated 45º over the dominant axis, their vertices overlapping, extruded through both floors. A resounding arrangement in which two ideal shapes are imposed on the existing irregularity and arrange all the floor space with no need for any other means. One of the squares will hold the stairs, and the other will house the bedroom on the upper floor and the toilet/office spaces on the ground floor. The very rotation of these squares results in the specialization of the space around it without needing any additional enclosures, since the new volumes, as they approach and move away from the perimeter walls, define these areas.
The proposal's emphasis runs parallel to the sought-after inner spatial complexity and a firm intention to underplay the different areas and circulation.
The treatment of colors and materials highlights the extruded volumes, coated in glossy, gold finish paint mixed with gold powder, surrounded by white cladding coating the existing walls, while the inside of the volumes is black.
On the ground floor, three existing paintings of Brazilian origin were preserved: they are the reason the client, of Brazilian origin, decided to buy these properties and undertake the project.