A hyper-connected home that prioritizes sustainable solutions and transforms an icon of São Paulo's modern architecture, dating from 1962 and designed by Botti and Rubin, into a flexible and reconfigurable habitat. An apartment immersed in a real urban forest. A project that reflects on the impacts of new digital technologies and new ways of living.

Concrete and virtual merge to build a spatiality called hybrid, where the cement and the brick blended themselves with network cables, microcontrollers and sensors. In the Terrace Apartment, the house management system can be controlled virtually through mobile devices or locally through smart keypads or voice command, allowing you to set different scenarios, from day-to-day to workstations, party or cinema. Accesses, lighting, irrigation, audio and video, curtains and furniture, all automated.

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. At Terrace Apartment, instead of designing a project based on the rooms, such as the bedroom, living room and kitchen, we sought to design a house based on its activities, such as working, sleeping, eating, receiving friends, taking care of the clothes or relaxing. The result is a dynamic and interactive architecture, likely to accommodate different daily practices.

Acoustic glass sliding doors and large panels of automated curtains blurs the boundaries and allow you to create more social or more private moments, integrating or isolating spaces.

The kitchen is an example of one of the environments that transforms itself according to the resident's wishes. Integrated to the living room by large pivoting doors, it may also function as a meeting place or workstation multiplying the usual uses for this kind of space. It is divided into a preparation and work area (enabled by a countertop, magnetic board and television) and a cleaning area, surrounded by a vegetable garden.

A long-suspended flower box crosses all the integrated environments and draws, together with the floor vases and pendants, a private biome. The intense presence of vegetation is capable of creating a specific microclimate, reducing high temperatures and improving air quality, important premises in a city like São Paulo.

All the furniture and decoration items were specially selected and keep personal stories and collective ones - regarding the history of brazilian design. The coverings and material choice also favored national products with certification seals. The old Ipê wooden floor was carefully removed, treated and became a furniture collection designed by Estudio Guto Requena for the apartment. The office desk and lamp, panels, side tables, etc. All lighting is LED and the automation system has energy efficiency control.