Sumit Singhal Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.
EGREY Store in São Paulo, Brazil by MNMA studio
September 8th, 2017 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: MNMA studio
“Nothing is invented; there is a past to everything.”
The expansion project of the Egrey store in São Paulo happened intuitively, thinking first of the contact of the architectural object with its immediate urban context.The main point of contact between the interior of the store and the outside environment is its sidewalk which has been transformed into a large continuous plane.The connection between the two existing volumes that compose the store is given by the white metallic paneling as a more aseptic background that values the large transparent and translucent openings.
Connecting both volumes, there is a translucent attachment that allows the entrance of natural light, thus creating an inner atmosphere with the sensation of the passage of time by the variation of the light itself. In the proposed organization we respected the imposed local scale, but we sought to re-signify the new element without disregarding its local context.We believe that when Architecture goes beyond the answer to pragmatic questions it becomes a true transformation process shared with its users.
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