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The project was developed based on the premise of translating the brand's identity into spatial experience. The experience is divided into three moments: the administrative, financial, inventory and exhibition space. In addition to the concept, the space also had to meet a very pragmatic demand: being able to house — at different times — four types of program: store, showroom, inventory and dining room. The diversity of uses required us to think of elements as devices that enable the expansion and contraction of space. A movable bench that fits into the joinery furniture, racks that move up and down according to your needs, in such a way that several scenarios materialize in the same environment.

The racks should bring subtlety and dynamics to the space, and to this end, the brushed steel pieces were curved, configuring elements of greater organicity and giving movement to the displayed clothing items. With the aim of reducing costs — but still being able to work with higher-cost materials — stones discarded by a local marble factory were used to compose the base, handles for the racks and support surface for a mobile bench.

The larger blocks of yellow sandstone were drilled so that the vertical supports of the macaws could be fitted and fixed - in such a way that the weight of the block acts as a foundation and anchor. Smaller blocks were carved, sanded and drilled, serving as handles for the mobile racks. The marble sheet used was completely irregular and was therefore cut within the intact perimeter of the piece, and then fixed onto the structure of the store's mobile bench.


Carol Arbex's Store

The Carol Arbex store project allowed for an unusual freedom of experimentation with production waste due to the client's demand for the use of more refined materials—albeit with limited financial resources—and a very small intervention space; about 17m2.
We sought to use materials discarded by a local marble shop: blocks of various sizes of yellow sandstone and a slab of crema marfil marble.
The larger blocks of yellow sandstone were drilled with sufficient depth so that the vertical supports of the racks (cylindrical profile Ø38mm) could be fitted and fixed—such that the weight of the block serves as a base and anchorage.
Smaller blocks were sculpted, sanded, and drilled, serving as handles for the mobile racks—whose system operates with fixed pulleys and counterweights. The crema marfil marble slab used was completely irregular and therefore was cut within the intact perimeter of the piece and then fixed onto the structure of the store's mobile counter.
During the design and execution process, we understood that the production and disposal chain of marble shops—whose waste recycling is only possible for certain types of stone and under processes of intense machining—presents other ways of reuse in architecture, with various scales and uses from small-scale manufacturing, technically more accessible.

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O projeto da loja Carol Arbex possibilitou uma liberdade atípica de experimentação com resíduos de produção devido à demanda da cliente pelo uso de materiais mais requintados — porém com recursos financeiros limitados — e um espaço de intervenção bastante reduzido; cerca de 17m2.

Buscamos utilizar materiais descartados por uma marmoraria local: blocos de diversos tamanhos de arenito amarelo e uma chapa de mármore crema marfim.

Os blocos maiores de arenito amarelo foram perfurados com profundidade suficiente para que os apoios verticais das araras (perfil cilíndrico Ø38mm) fossem encaixados e fixados – de tal forma que o peso do bloco funciona como embasamento e ancoragem. 

Blocos menores foram esculpidos, lixados e perfurados, servindo como puxadores das araras móveis — cujo sistema funciona com roldanas fixas e contrapeso. A chapa de mármore crema marfil utilizada era totalmente irregular e por isso foi recortada dentro do perímetro intacto da peça e depois fixada sobre a estrutura da bancada móvel da loja.

Durante o processo de projeto e execução compreendemos que a cadeia de produção e descarte das marmorarias — cuja reciclagem de resíduos só é possível para determinados tipos de pedra e sob processos de intensa maquinofatura — apresenta outras maneiras de reaproveitamento na arquitetura, com escalas e usos diversos a partir de pequenas manufaturas, tecnicamente mais acessíveis. 



Resíduos de Marmoaria

Marble shop waste

The Carol Arbex store project allowed for an unusual freedom of experimentation with production waste due to the client's demand for the use of more refined materials—albeit with limited financial resources—and a very small intervention space; about 17m2.

We sought to use materials discarded by a local marble shop: blocks of various sizes of yellow sandstone and a slab of crema marfil marble.

The larger blocks of yellow sandstone were drilled with sufficient depth so that the vertical supports of the racks (cylindrical profile Ø38mm) could be fitted and fixed—such that the weight of the block serves as a base and anchorage.

Smaller blocks were sculpted, sanded, and drilled, serving as handles for the mobile racks—whose system operates with fixed pulleys and counterweights. The crema marfil marble slab used was completely irregular and therefore was cut within the intact perimeter of the piece and then fixed onto the structure of the store's mobile counter.

During the design and execution process, we understood that the production and disposal chain of marble shops—whose waste recycling is only possible for certain types of stone and under processes of intense machining—presents other ways of reuse in architecture, with various scales and uses from small-scale manufacturing, technically more accessible.

MARBLE SHOP WASTE