Refurbishing
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about refurbishing
Project • By Solo Arquitetos • Shops
Oda Design Store
The design for the new store of ÔDA Design - located in the Juvevê neighborhood in Curitiba/PR - marks yet another chapter in the long standing partnership between the office and the store. At this new address, a typical neighborhood house, the brand gains more space to develop its own identity, expanding their options to showcase design pieces and processes.
Eduardo Macarios
Eduardo Macarios
The reform was simple, with little interventions. As the building has load-bearing walls, we did not propose any changes in the organization of the space. Luckily, the main room was already unified by a previous renovation, exposed by the large metal beam in the middle of the space. Therefore, the main interventions were the revi... More
Project • By CE-A Studio + Carlo Ezechieli • Apartments
Shapeshifter House
The refurbishing program for a household located in the sixth and upper floor of a Milanese apartment building asked for the making of at least three double rooms within the relatively small surface of 100sqm. The solution was conceiving the interior space as a somewhat variable, multipurpose, shapeshifting environment where the relationships between different spacesand their functional and architectural quality may be constantly changed. More
Project • By A53 architects • Apartments
Casa Sophie
Apartment Refurbishment in Gran de Gràcia, BarcelonaThe project involves the complete refurbishment of a 160-square-metre apartment, in one of the most important axis of the city.The original plan layout corresponds to the building typology with load-bearing walls parallel to the facade and the rooms positioned to each side of a long corridor.The owners were attracted by the apartment’s traditional typology with its exceptional illumination by the three patios. It had not undergone any fundamental change during its 100-year life.The design was based on the idea to highlight the apartment’s unique atmosphere by preserving the original decorative ceiling mouldings and the original patterned cement tiled floor.In the common areas the original... More