THE TIME BETWEEN TIMES || A Brazilian Exhibition Space Redefines Modern Tranquility
Some spaces don’t need to speak loudly to make an impression. Entre Tempos is one of them.
Designed by Flávia Koloske and Tainá Pravato for CASACOR Florianópolis 2025, this 82-square-metre environment captures a moment suspended between motion and stillness. It feels at once grounded in natural materials and lifted by light, texture, and air.
The open layout connects dining, lounge, and gourmet zones in one seamless flow.
The architects interpret the exhibition’s theme, Semear Sonhos (Sowing Dreams), not as a literal call to idealism but as an exploration of how design can root itself in the present while allowing imagination to bloom. Every surface tells a quiet story: the curve of the wooden wall panels echoing organic growth, the tactile stone underfoot evoking permanence, and the soft diffusion of light across mineral textures suggesting time’s gentle passage.
Curved wooden panels and organic textures set a calm, continuous tone throughout the space.
A wooden ceiling mesh filters diffuse light, shaping mood and rhythm.
The space unfolds as a multifunctional living area, part kitchen, part lounge, and part dining zone, but it’s less about division and more about rhythm. Flow and openness guide the experience. The transition from one function to another happens seamlessly, as if the air itself delineates boundaries. Even the furniture, chosen for its sculptural honesty, contributes to this sense of continuity. A handcrafted dining table, created with Residual Design and MG3 Mármores, becomes the room’s anchor. Its reclaimed wood base, carved from a fallen trunk, supports a quartzite top that gleams softly in the light. The veins of the stone ripple like water, a visual metaphor for time’s steady movement.
A reclaimed wood base and Capadócia quartzite top define the handcrafted dining table.
Neutral tones and natural fibres lend softness to stone and wood.
Materiality is the true protagonist here. Natural wood, stone, and fibre merge into a palette of quiet tones: fawn, beige, and soft mineral grey, creating an atmosphere that feels both intimate and expansive. It’s tactile, not ostentatious. You can almost sense the grain beneath your fingertips, the coolness of stone, the warmth of woven textiles. Together, they invite touch and reflection, offering sensory depth to those who pause long enough to notice.
Lighting plays a crucial role in shaping the emotional tone. Subtle and layered, it shifts between the functional and the atmospheric, illuminating textures rather than overpowering them. A wooden mesh ceiling filters indirect light, lending a diffuse glow that wraps the space in calm. Each layer of illumination feels intentional, as if time itself is being choreographed: morning brightness, evening serenity, twilight introspection.
A modern Brazilian interior that feels both grounded and ethereal.
At its heart, Entre Tempos is a meditation on modern tranquillity. It speaks to the contemporary desire for spaces that can hold both energy and stillness, as well as connection and retreat. Even within an exhibition setting, it feels deeply livable, like a prototype for a slower way of inhabiting the world. The design’s quiet intelligence lies in this balance: how to remain rooted in authenticity while allowing fluidity to define form.
The project’s name, meaning “Between Times,” feels apt. It suggests not just the coexistence of past and future but a present moment stretched wide enough to contain both. As you leave the space, the impression lingers, not in the memory of a single detail, but in the feeling that everything, even architecture, breathes more gently when given the time to do so.
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