Brisolé Luxury Apartments
A Property-Wide Placemaking Program
Epoch Residential | Lake Nona, FL | Exterior, Interior & Infrastructure
Scope:
A-frame exterior — arrival landmark transformation
A-frame porch — threshold and common area
Pet spa interior — 7 walls, complete experiential environment
Compactor — all 4 sides, utility infrastructure transformation
Focus
Amenity activation
Facade activation / exterior placemaking
Interior experience design
Utility infrastructure transformation / eyesore remediation
Total environment design
Collaboration: Developer, interior design team
The Arrival — From Inert to Iconic
A blank white utility building at the community entrance. Architecturally necessary. Visually inert.
The same building — now the arrival moment of the entire community.
A site-specific color story derived from the Florida landscape — soft sage, mint, sky blue — in a geometric composition that moves across the facade and invites you in.
The Threshold — Porch
The covered porch between the exterior world and the pet spa interior presented a specific design challenge: how do you create an atmosphere in a transitional space — somewhere people pass through — that makes them want to stay?
Pure Hart's answer was restraint. Using sophisticated color theory and deliberately minimal contrast, the porch walls were painted in a graduated field of blue — sky to aqua, light to depth — with heron and crane silhouettes so lightly evoked they reveal themselves slowly, like shapes emerging from morning mist.
The result is immersive without being insistent. Peaceful without being inert. A space that residents now linger in, drawn into a dreamy atmospheric world that exists only under this particular roof, on this particular porch, at Brisole.
This is what color can do when it's trusted to work quietly."
The Experience — An Enveloping Interior World
Inside, the palette shifts entirely. Where the exterior speaks in cool geometric abstraction, the interior speaks in warm narrative — suns, botanicals, birds, an eye, organic forms in deep teal, terracotta, gold, and forest green. In a small space, total transformation is everything. Pure Hart painted every surface — walls, corners, the spaces above and beside the windows — creating an enveloping world that residents step into rather than simply observe. The art was designed in dialogue with the architecture — tile wainscoting, penny tile floors, black door — so that nothing feels applied. Everything belongs.
Clean, functional, clinical. White tile, white walls, black grooming table. Everything right technically. Nothing right emotionally.
The sun, the botanical forms, the alligator — a complete narrative world across seven walls (more below).
The Hidden Canvas — The Compactor
Every property has one. Most developers hide it. We painted it
The compactor at Brisole sits at a secondary community entrance — visible from the road, the first thing residents see when they enter from this side of the property. Rather than treating a utility structure as something to minimize, Pure Hart wrapped all four sides in the same color story that defines the primary arrival experience, ensuring that the community's visual identity is consistent regardless of how residents come home.
With flowing shapes and overlapping color, we complemented the property’s color study and evoked swaying flora, softening the inert mass of the enclosure.
The utility boxes remain. The signage remains. The art simply surrounds them with beauty — and suddenly, they stop being something you notice.
This is the Pure Hart philosophy in its purest form: no surface is too utilitarian to deserve beauty.
