V | M Apartment
550 m² apartment purchased off-plan in Ecoville, with interiors fully designed by the studio: a continuous social living room with a home theater, a dining room with a backlit marble panel, and an outdoor kitchen.
- Typology
- Interiors
- Location
- Curitiba, Brazil
- Floor area
- 550 m²
- Year
- 2025
The client's challenge
The family purchased a 550 m² apartment through the developer's tailor-made process, which allowed the unit to be customized from scratch before the structure was even finished. The challenge was to make the most of that window of intervention to design every room around the residents' lifestyle: redesigning the layout, defining each wall, positioning electrical, plumbing and automation points, choosing finishes and creating a distinct identity. The mission was to turn the generous square footage into welcoming spaces, with human scale, acoustic comfort, controlled natural light and greenery in the gathering areas, ensuring nothing was generic or standard.
The design solution
Since the apartment was delivered off-plan, the entire interior is bespoke: we started from the raw shell and defined, alongside construction, the new design of the social axis as a continuous path. The living room, with white sofas, sculptural coffee tables and wood panels, leads the eye to the dining room and outdoor kitchen in the background, unified by continuous flooring, an aligned ceiling and a neutral palette. Between the living and dining areas, we created a home theater with a slatted wood panel that rises from the rack to the ceiling, a built-in TV and horizontal blinds that control light without isolating the room; alongside it, a sculptural shell-shaped armchair marks the reading corner next to the city view. The dining room received a backlit white marble panel, connected to the automation system, that changes the room's mood when lit. The outdoor kitchen received a central island in light marble, stools, a stainless-steel hood, a cooktop and a TV built into the stone panel, aligned with the kitchen — which was redesigned in an L-shape, with gray and white cabinets, an island with a cooktop and a wood table with straw chairs for everyday use. The social powder room became a small welcoming gallery, with a sculpted, illuminated translucent marble countertop, a bronze mirror and a wood panel. In the private area, each bedroom received its own identity and the bathrooms were designed as an extension of the bedrooms: bright and serene, with white marble and taupe furniture, in the daughter's suite; urban and sober, with dark marble and a matte black cabinet, in the son's suite, whose mood continues into the closet with mirrored doors and a graphite structure. The master suite was treated as a retreat, with an upholstered headboard, a lacquered panel, an armchair, a marble side table and a sculptural chandelier. Because the decisions were made before execution, it was possible to plan layered lighting, integrated millwork, low-emission finishes and adhesives, acoustic insulation between the social and private areas, and irrigation points with tropical plants in every gathering room.
The project began long before move-in day: the apartment was purchased off-plan, through the developer's tailor-made process, and reached the studio as a raw shell. This made it possible to design the entire interior — layout, millwork, electrical, plumbing, automation and lighting points — before any finish was applied. The starting point was reading light and scale: a 550 m² apartment needs elements that restore human proportion without losing spaciousness.
The living room was designed as a gallery-like lounge, with white linen sofas, glass-and-stone coffee tables, a large wood panel, an integrated home theater and a sculptural shell-shaped armchair facing the city view. The artwork in blue and green tones anchors the dining wall and adds personality without competing with the architecture.
The integration between the living room, home theater, dining room, outdoor kitchen and kitchen was resolved through continuous flooring, an aligned ceiling and a single palette. The home theater, between the living and dining rooms, received a slatted wood panel from the rack to the ceiling, a built-in TV and horizontal light-control blinds. The dining room has a backlit white marble panel that turns the room into a scene at the end of the day. The outdoor kitchen, with a light marble island, a stainless-steel hood, a cooktop and a built-in TV, works as a second social hub, conversing with the L-shaped kitchen, its central island and the wood table with straw chairs. The social powder room, with an illuminated translucent marble countertop and a bronze mirror, welcomes guests.
The private area keeps the discreet language of the social rooms, with an identity for each resident: the daughter's bedroom in a light base with pink and wood, the son's bedroom in gray, graphite and black, each with a bathroom in the same palette and, in the son's case, a closet with mirrored doors and a graphite structure. The master suite is the home's retreat — a king bed in light fabric, an upholstered headboard, a lacquered panel, a reading armchair, a marble side table and a sculptural chandelier beneath linen curtains.
Having been conceived from the blueprint stage, the apartment incorporates the pillars of healthy architecture natively: properly sized air renewal, low-VOC-emission finishes and adhesives, layered lighting with controlled color temperature, acoustic treatment between the social and private areas, and tropical plants distributed as a biophilic element.
Healthy Architecture pillars applied
Natural Light
Acoustics
Biophilia
Air Quality
