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Cool Concrete Art Studio in São Paulo

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An art studio designed by AR Arquitetos in Brazil is cool and chic, with an elegance that belies its concrete construction.

The entrance recreates the feeling of a street with random buildings.

An internal concrete stairway ascending a cube has a satisfyingly sculptural heft.

Under the cube, stairs lead down to a sleeping space.

The painting studio has a double height ceiling allowing the high window to diffuse the northern light from above.

After ascending the sculptural staircase, the top of the cube pushes out into the world.

Another philosophical contemplation area that extends indoors and out offers a low concrete bench suspended just above ground.

In this courtyard, a sudden flourishing of nature is startling in the context of unrelieved concrete.

Even more metaphysical is another stair that seems more like a sculpture of a stair than a simply functional design.

Altogether an interesting art studio that is more art than architecture.