Hipica Residence is a 133-square-meter (1,432-square-foot) residence in São Paulo, Brazil, the place Paula Aveiro Arquitetos makes use of materials and texture to prepare the inside. Designed in 2026, the three-bedroom condominium attracts continuity from pale slatted wooden, then sharpens that calm framework with veined stone, inexperienced marble, brass, velvet, leather-based, and ceramics. Hid and built-in lighting makes these surfaces register otherwise from day to nighttime.
About Hipica Residence
At 133 m² (1,432 sq. toes), Hipica Residence develops a concise materials system throughout its dwelling areas and three en-suite bedrooms. Paula Aveiro Arquitetos treats texture as a part of the inside’s construction: surfaces set up rhythm, direct gentle, and create materials continuity from room to room.
The palette begins with pale wooden and expands by veined stone, inexperienced marble, brass, leather-based, velvet, pure fibers, and handcrafted ceramics. Every addition is managed, permitting variations in grain, sheen, and softness to register with out crowding the rooms.
Wooden as a Steady Framework
Pale slats set up the condominium’s most persistent cadence. They lengthen throughout vertical planes and ceilings, then return on the bed room headboards. Seen instantly or repeated in mirrors and polished surfaces, their slender traces join areas with out counting on utilized decoration.
The comfortable grain offers a quiet background for stronger supplies and colours. Its repetition additionally provides the condominium consistency whereas leaving room for particular person areas to tackle distinct tones.
Stone, Shade, and Concentrated Accents
The dwelling space locations a pale, delicately veined wall behind the tv panel, the place filtered daylight from sheer curtains brings out refined shifts within the floor. Reverse, a inexperienced marble eating desk on a darkish sculpted base introduces the inside’s strongest chromatic accent. Pure-fiber rugs and upholstered surfaces mood the tougher finishes.
Elsewhere, materials emphasis is concentrated in a couple of exact interventions. A fluted-stone basin defines the powder room, with backlighting revealing the fabric’s translucency. Within the entrance corridor, brass spheres mounted on a wooden panel add aid and a measured gleam.
Lighting Inside the Surfaces
Hid strips hint planes and headboards quite than presenting fixtures as remoted objects. Backlit slats flip the timber lining right into a supply of illumination, emphasizing its depth and rhythm after darkish. The identical strategy sharpens the translucent basin and provides the restrained palette larger vary.
Variation Throughout the Bedrooms
The principal suite stays near impartial tones, pairing a backlit slatted headboard with brass dome lamps. A second bed room shifts towards dusty pink and earth tones, with a floating ledge, a round bedside pendant, and a terracotta crochet throw contributing a softer tactile register.
Petrol blue distinguishes the third bed room, showing in lacquered joinery and a channel-tufted velvet headboard. These measured adjustments give every room its personal character whereas the recurring wooden, built-in gentle, and restrained use of coloration preserve coherence all through the condominium.
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