DECAMERON

ECONOMIC CONSTRUCTION MODEL
The showroom of the Decameron furniture store is located on a rented site in the
furniture commercial alley in Sao Paulo. To make the quick and economic construction
viable, the project worked with the premise of a light occupation of the lot, basically
done with industrial elements, which could easily be assembled.
Ted site in the furniture commercial alley in Sao Paulo. To make the quick and
economic construction viable, the project worked with the premise of a light
occupation of the lot, basically done with industrial elements, which could easily be
assembled.
The ample span, necessary to show furniture in relation with each other, is constructed
by a metallic structure. This space is closed, in front and in back, by double-height
metal casements with alveolar polycarbonate. At the back of the lot, there is a patio
filled with trees and a pebbled-ground. When both doors are simultaneously opened, the
whole store becomes integrated with its urban context. At rush stressful hours, by
opening only the back doors, the store becomes self-absorbed, ruled by the presence of
the inner-garden.
On in the back of the site is the office, closed by a glass wall that enables the designers
to take part on the sales life. Two edges of the design process in contact through the
inner patio as other opposing strengths also meet at this small project: The intensity of
the urban life and a small nature retreat, the power of the containers and the lightness of
the metallic structure and finally the linearity of the tunnels and the cubic volume.