Located in central Brazil, this 6.000 square feet warehouse, is home to the Studio Andre Lenza, architecture office.
Studio André Lenza emerged from the desire to design its own workspace, reincorporating an old construction and tranforming it into a contemporary industrial warehouse typology with a corporate environment.
The building adopts a metallic structure and concrete block enclosures, dialoguing with the existing warehouses in the surroundings. The front facade, clad with black aluminum slats, lends identity to the building, while a pequizeiro tree (typical tree from the Goiás region, in the Brazilian vegetation Cerrado) positioned in front of the main volume reinforces the relationship with the local landscape.
The facade setback creates a covered area that protects from the intense sun of Central Brazil and the rain, this space is used by the neighborhood kids, as protection from the harsh brazilin sun, and the seasonal rainforest rain by the end of the day. So this place that works as a parking space in commercial hours, is used as a improvised soccer court by the neighborhood children, transforming the space into a collective use spaces.
In the interior, the contrast with the external sobriety is evident. The reception welcomes with modernist furniture and works by local artists, while the main workspace stands out for its seven-meter high ceilings and wide openings facing the garden, ensuring natural lighting, cross-ventilation, and views of the city.
