COPACABANA ROOFTOP
Brasil,2025
In 2024 they commissioned us the integral retrofit of a penthouse of 400m2 in Copacabana, located at few meters from the Avenida Atlántica in Rio de Janeiro. The building was built 80 years ago with an original project that had an architectural dignity that successive reforms with tumor-like rooms growths had ruined. The current state layout was obsolete for our times as well as for the needs of the client.
To return to the correct distribution of the original project, where the social spaces looked out to a covered exterior corridor, it was proposed to demolish an important part of the existing divisions opening diaphanous spaces to the original exterior corridor, which now was transformed into an Italian loggia that looks out to the beautiful views of Copacabana through a new colonnade . The new column grid dialogues with the modernist architecture of the building and, by solar control elements placed in between its supports, generates a buffer space of climate control that is self-regulatable by demotics,shading the large windows of the penthouse according to the needs of the day and of the season.
The unique and narrow interior staircase is enlarged to activate the new social space on the rehabilitated rooftop, whose spaces are designed in a modernist and deco style that, together with the naval references and Burle Marx calçadão, crown and design the new skyline with the poetic intention of transferring the deco spirit of the 30s and the glorious bossa nova modernity of the 50s to the interior of our apartment.
