This is not an apartment that asserts itself through novelty, but one that feels as though it has always been there. An interior that does not reveal itself immediately, but unfolds step by step, like a memory activated through movement.

Crossing the threshold of this apartment in El Refugio, a neighborhood set in Bogotá’s eastern hills, one does not enter directly into light. Instead, the space contracts. Brightness softens, sounds recede, and the body instinctively slows down. It is a deliberate choice: here, the sequence matters as much as the spaces themselves.

The project was designed by Christian Hasselbrinck, an industrial and interior designer born in Barranquilla in 1989, trained between Colombia and the IED, and founder of the Bogotá-based studio La Curadora. Rather than imposing a recognizable aesthetic, Hasselbrinck set out to do something more complex: to construct an interior that appears to have been assembled slowly over time, even though it is a completely new apartment.

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