There were two young friends who bought an apartment on the ground floor of a building in Vila Madalena neighborhood. Although life there is intense, it keeps some bucolic aspects of São Paulo residential neighborhoods.

Architects: VAGA

Location: R. Fradique Coutinho - Vila Madalena, São Paulo - SP, Brasil

Authors: Fernando O?leary, Pedro Domingues, Pedro Faria

Area: 18.2 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Manuel Sá

Text: Fátima Menezes

© Manuel Sá

From the architect. There were two young friends who bought an apartment on the ground floor of a building in Vila Madalena neighborhood. Although life there is intense, it keeps some bucolic aspects of São Paulo residential neighborhoods.
© Manuel Sá

They started often having young people like them, some Brazilian and some foreigners, as guests in the small room in the back for a short while. Then they noticed that they could use the room to receive guests with much more comfort.

Axonométrica

The name “Puxadinho” was chosen because it refers to a kind of informal building very common in Brazilian cities and, simultaneously, it was a nice way of identifying the peculiar feature of the building, enclosed to the previously existing one.The challenges for the project and for the undertaking were, at first, the very limited budget, besides the small space and difficult access to the buil...