Entre-Copas by Armentano Arquitetura
The Entre-Copas showroom in São Paulo, Brazil, designed by Armentano Arquitetura (AARQ), creates a synthesis between sophisticated hospitality and the warmth of a domestic setting. The design space reinterprets the kitchen through its shared domestic space that connects its visitors to both nature and the surrounding city. As part of decorating show CASACOR São Paulo 2025, this inviting environment embraces collective use and diverse experiences.
Entre-Copas: An Architecture of Dreaming
The Entre-Copas, designed by Armentano Arquitetura (AARQ), creates a synthesis between sophisticated hospitality and the warmth of a domestic setting. The kitchen space is reinterpreted through the 3 conceptual pillars that make up the theme “Sowing Dreams”, proposed by the decoration show CASACOR 2025: collective dreams, cooperative ecosystems, and the confluence of knowledge.
Sowing Dreams
We believe that dreaming is the driving force of architecture, a desire projected toward the future. We envision a shared aspiration that materializes through the creation of spaces that welcome, connect, and inspire – an architecture that, beyond shapes and functions, mobilizes affections and consciousness. Because dreaming of the future also means assuming responsibility for the present.
A New Desire Projected Into The Future
By evoking the memory of Parque da Água Branca, the venue for CASACOR São Paulo 2025, the project acknowledges the transformation of its meaning. If, in 1929, the park and its buildings were erected as symbols of São Paulo’s importance, with the Norman style of the constructions designed by Mário Whately taking Europe as a model and dreaming of Brazil’s inclusion among the so-called modern nations, then in the 21st century, the park’s urban vitality, consolidated by its organic agriculture fair, subverts that hierarchy and updates the dream. This new desire projected into the future emerges as a true awakening, an alternative in the face of contemporary climate challenges.
Grounded In Sustainable Production
Grounded in sustainable production and collective organization, the fair and the park’s vibrant presence in the city reveal the cooperative ecosystem that inspires the proposed architecture.
A Connection Between The Interior And Nature
The confluence of knowledge, the third pillar of the exhibition’s manifesto, is expressed in the spatial arrangement of the project. Designed to highlight the landscape, especially the treetops surrounding the space, Entre-Copas fosters a connection between the building’s interior and nature. The formal restraint of the construction elements emphasizes the openness that accommodates encounters and evokes a sense of belonging to a collective.
A Space For Reconnection
This is a space for reconnection between people, the city, and nature, where architecture and its context intertwine as part of a single dream. To realize it, we must bring it into consciousness and give it meaning. We propose, therefore, a synthesis rooted in the use of space and the sociability it generates: welcoming, cooking, and sharing experiences.
The Orbit Of Gathering, Collective Use, Generosity, And Plurality
It is within the orbit of gathering, collective use, generosity, and plurality that our journey takes shape. We bring to awareness a dream of cooperation and confluence. Entre-Copas plants a seed of affection in Parque da Água Branca.
A Large Social Space
The proposal consists of a single environment conceived as a large social space. The diversity of uses is suggested through the variation of floor levels. Shared experiences and the coming together of people are the protagonists.
Sensory And Symbolic Path
Access is via a ramp enclosed within a tunnel that gently rises to a level 30 centimeters (11.8 inches) above the building’s main floor, leading visitors directly to the transversal axis of the project – the center of the veranda projecting toward Parque da Água Branca. This transition is designed as a sensorial and symbolic path that prepares both body and gaze for the spatial experience.
Viewing Entre-Copas In Its Entirety
Emerging from the tunnel, visitors can view Entre-Copas in its entirety, unobstructed. The perspective from this point, the highest level, allows the observation of the large, integrated space framed by the building’s nine metal-framed windows designed by Mario Whately, revealing the treetops as a vast dome. A gentle slope leads to the intermediate level, which houses the bar and social kitchen. Finally, slightly recessed compared to the rest of the space, the lower level accommodates a lounge area that connects to the terrace, where the landscaping incorporates an organic vegetable garden.
Living Kitchen: The Heart Of The Project
Set on a platform raised 15 centimeters (5.9 inches), the living kitchen is the heart of the project. A linear countertop marks the longitudinal axis of the space, extending parallel to the building’s main facade and bathed in natural light from the windows framing the treetops.
The Kitchen Counter Gives Meaning To The Space
In addition to organizing the visitor’s journey, the kitchen counter gives meaning to the space through its functionality. It highlights, in the act of hosting and sharing a meal, generosity, care for others, and the potential for a more harmonious relationship with nature.
Photography courtesy of Armentano Arquitetura
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