Archello Awards · Winners Announced
Archello Awards 2024 · Winners Announced
Archello Awards 2024
Winners Announced
Essential Office
Manuel Sá

Essential Office

Studio Kyze Arquitetura e Design as Architects

A compact and raw commercial space becomes, under the care of architecture, the headquarters of a society of legal services and advocacy.


The materiality respects the environments proportions, with glass partitions and discreet black aluminum profiles.


The unusual absence of the most traditional plaster lining reveals precast concrete modules, valuing the modern and essential construction technique and process; the installations of lighting circuits in sight strengthen the brutalist characteristics of the project.


The conceptual use of upper horizontality continues to correspond to the meeting space. Here, an acoustic ceiling element aims at a better use and demarcation of the environment, suggesting privacy and professional comfort.


Black and white alternate in the construction of the details of carpentry, furniture and accessories, creating a uniform and essential language throughout the environment, broken only by the harmonious intervention of green touches of the landscaping.

 

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with glass partitions and discreet black aluminum profiles.
The unusual absence of the most traditional plaster lining reveals precast concrete modules.

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