House in Paraíso

A bourgeois nineteenth-century house is divided into four similar apartments sharing a backyard. The front façade is almost unchanged, its shabby tiles replaced with polished green marble against the old granite frames and a single circle of white marble.

The four living rooms differ but share a language: a stepped wall, a curved surface, a pink door and a green door, and a striped wooden floor. The Portuguese design team rebuilt the back façade taller, like a mask or a temple, with two square windows and bold vertical stripes of white, green and black marble.