The Minhocão Marquise in São Paulo, Brazil by Triptyque Architecture

Article source: Triptyque Architecture 

The Minhocão viaduct was built in 1971 as a sign of the modernity who gave to the cars a central place. Today, it appears as a scar in São Paulo downtown. The director plan has until 16 years to transform this elevation of almost 3km. For many years the focus was on the future of the high road, but never its lower part, completely forgotten in this reflection while it is surely the most affected, such as an urban tunnel, source of shade, a leftover of the São Paulo city.

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• Architects: Triptyque Architecture
• Project: The Minhocão Marquise
• Location: São Paulo, Brazil

Image Courtesy © Triptyque Architecture

Triptyque in collaboration with the landscaper Guil Blanche, changed the point of view on this infrastructure, and so move from the high road to the Marquise. Triptyque and Guil Blanche gave as a donation to the São Paulo Council. They invite the mayor and the people to see the Marquise as a productive space and not any more a sub space.

First of all, the project is participative. The first step of this reflection was to invite the local community to develop and share their desires for the future of the Minhocão Marquise. The structure will change but according to the district identity and the local community.

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Then, Triptyque wants to give life to this space by giving light thanks to a simple opening operation, to create beams of natural light. The light actives the place and allow the life to settle, first  in the form of the nature. The Minhocão Marquise is the most polluted place in São Paulo. According to research, suspended plants from the ceiling over the entire length of Minhocão, will filter 20% of the cars CO2 emissions. The irrigation of these plants will be provided by a natural water harvesting system, the vaporization of this water will have a sanitation role of the air and will clean the Marquise surface.

Thanks to the institutional support of Interbrand, an international brand consultant, the Marquise Minhocão gained a personality, mainly, colors through a new visual and verbal identity. Besides the colors, the logo brings a new perspective – that tempts to look up and down. “Today, to be relevant, it is necessary to question the status quo. This project will provide a generous point of view to the city and its environment. It will bring a completely different perspective to São Paulo for all brands whom are betting on the city, “says Daniela Bianchi-Giavina – Managing Director of Interbrand.

Finally, the Marquise could receive a mix of programs. Its length will be divided into blocks determined by the space between each pillar (33m), these blocks will be numbered as the “posts” of the huge beaches of Rio de Janeiro. Each block gets 4 program modules: culture, food, services and shops.

About Triptyque

Since 2000, Triptyque Architecture explores the tools serving the contemporary and sustainable world. Currently headquarted in São Paulo and Paris, the agency created by Grégory Bousquet, Carolina Bueno, Guillaume Sibaud and Olivier Raffaëlli is celebrating 16 years of creation.

Simultaneously in Brazil, a country full of energy that has been calling the attention worldwide, and in the Old Continent, birthplace of several principles of the contemporary culture, Triptyque benefits from both cultures.

Triptyque conceives a type of architecture that integrates its surroundings to a cultural and poetical sense, interacting with art, sociology and semantics. From this mixture arise live architectures that change over time, transforming themselves, reacting to the surroundings and interacting with those who experience it.

About Guil Blanche

Landscaper, funder and manager of 90° Movement, a social enterprise that aims to improve the quality of life of large urban areas thanks to the installation of vertical gardens on the blind walls of buildings that make up the urban landscape of São Paulo.

Concerned by the improvement and democratization of urban areas, he transforms them through economically viable projects in degraded areas of the city to become environmentally and culturally relevant public spaces.

Tags: Brazil, Sao Paulo

Category: Mixed use

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