Located in a new building in Curitiba, the Bigorrilho Apartment is the second home for a couple and their daughter while they live in São Paulo. As they frequently visit Curitiba to join her family, they wanted to exchange the hotel stays for a place with their identity that offered a social area, which in the apartment comprises, in the same environment, a living room, a dining room and a kitchen.

The rack is a resource used in many of our projects and in this case, it proved to be essential. To hold the largest number of dinner seats and bring the whole family together, the rectangular table was custom-designed by the architect and positioned with one end fitted in the rack, eliminating the circulation on this side and creating a sideboard on its extension. The intelligent cabinetry also accommodates the TV and discreetly contains the intimate area access. The open niches expose particular objects of the residents and bring more personality, while the closed cavities expand the storage spaces in both the living and dining spaces.

Another desire of the clients was that the kitchen should not resemble a utility room at all, but rather look like an inherent part of the living and dining room. For this reason, the refrigerator was built into the cabinetry and the barbecue grill, which would be of no use to the residents, was eliminated, giving way to a vertical volume containing an oven, a built-in dishwasher, and a storage.

The materials and colors in the kitchen blend in the predominant white throughout the apartment, while the wood, fabrics, and colors of the cabinetry and furniture in the living room warm up the ambient. The color and material palette is mature and refined, worked in a way to enhance the abundant natural light that falls and crosses the apartment through the large window frames.

All the furniture pieces are Brazilian, emphasizing the Kilin armchairs, Cantu chairs, Alex vintage center table by Sergio Rodrigues and the Sela stools by Ricardo Graham. The artworks are by Paulo Pasta, Dolino, Ricardo Homen, Rubem Pondé and Kleber Ventura.