PM Studio Apartment is a minimal apartment located in Paulo, Brazil, designed by Atelier Peclat+Chow. A well succeeded and low profile chic young couple approached studio with a challenging task, to rethink a floor plan of a small studio apartment of only 55sqm, in order to suite their contemporary lifestyle.

Located in the busy district of Itaim Bibi in S?o Paulo, this building, from the late 80s, had everything but good architectural features. The same issue was also translated into the floor plan of this small apartment. The original placement of walls not only created an oddly “L” shaped living and dining area, as well as divide — what was already a small apartment — into many smaller sections. The kitchen, for example, was tucked into a corner of 2x2m with no windows. The previous sensation was of an even smaller apartment, with little sunlight and no permanence areas.

When the studio designs a project in a chaotic and noisy city like Sao Paulo, they always seek to create a temple-like atmosphere, a place of seclusion and rest, not only physically but, above all, spiritually. Give the eyes and the heart a quiet space. Working on such a small project, using every square metre of space becomes a challenge while enhancing comfort. To achieve this, the studio came up with an open-plan scheme.

They precisely clear the space of all previous noise. The corridor was removed first, as it was a typical space-consuming solution in Brazilian projects. In addition, the studio combined the kitchen with the living/dining area, while opening up the room that was originally an office to the same space. By doing so, it not only fills the space with sunlight, but also changes the atmosphere of the space.