Public seating. Private viewing.
Grande Hotel Senac São Pedro, Brasil
Architects: Levisky Arquitetos | Estratégia Urbana
Outdoor furniture supplier: mmcité
Fluid, flexible and accessible for everyone. Nature colours in a nature environment. We love the way Brazilian architect Adriana Levisky looked at the Senac São Pedro hotel’s public areas.
Senac Águas de São Pedro maintains a school hotel in São Paulo countryside, a hydro-mineral resort. Reorganizing their leisure areas was an attempt to attract a younger audience. Assuming that challenge, the architect designed a ground floor building inside the hotel’s woods, which, with its staircases and ramps, connects new areas to the old ones. And furniture here becomes more than an invitation to sit but creates and extra layer of a landscape.
The integration of spaces is made by wooden decks, which also serve for entertaining and interactive activities with guests. Thinking about the purpose of this building, the environments were designed to be modular and flexible according to activity type and age group, which can be reduced, expanded, or even integrated into the external area with the use of glass partitions. Levisky chosen the mmcité brand for furbishing: “I like how Sinus benches attend with grace, aesthetic sophistication, diversity and comfort to all the prerequisites,” she comments.
Sinus by mmcité
Expanding the original concept of tree grilles, Sinus was created from a number of separate benches with an unmistakable expression. In the sinus stool, strong steel plates are easily bent on a slightly trapezoidal profile with an almost invisible rib rendering a totally solid shape. The dot perforation is a throwback to the genuine aesthetics of the 1960s. The combination of a unique seat pattern with plastic ’button pads’ thermally isolates the unpleasantly cold metal while providing the ultimate sitting comfort. A subtle yet important detail of the design is the option to have the stool optically “grow” right out of the pavement. The galvanized steel sheet structures are also available cured with powder coating or left without a surface finish.
Sustainable construction, materials chosen to withstand extreme weather, suitable for heavy traffic, zero waste manufacturing.
Photos by Ana Mello
