This project is a renovation of a 1940’s house in the city of São Paulo. The client, a single woman, wanted a more free an fluid space, so almost all of the first floor internal walls were removed. In order to do so, without having to include any sort of beam (iron or concrete) under the slab, a suspended beam was installed on top of the second floor (under the roof). It was attached to a built in rod. So, part of the first floor structure was held by this hidden beam.
Intensive participation in the design of this house, residents asked the office Pupo + Gaspar Architecture and Interior a construction that intermingle styles, but in which predominated the rustic and traditional aspects. “The spaces should mirror a joke differentiated solutions with touch of originality.
Xiaomi is one of the leading technology companies in the world, and as they opened a new office in Brazil its workspace was designed to represent what the company believes and stands for.
Praça Vila Nova is a project located on an entire block near an avenue. The program is distributed among the two residential towers that share a leisure area and a natural square right in from of them in the block centre. Both towers have one apartment per floor which has a generous balcony.
São Paulo, Brazil—The sustainable high-rise luxury residential project, Vitra, is designed by architect Daniel Libeskind, Studio Libeskind (New York/Milan/Zurich) and developed by JHSF (Brazil), Brazil’s leading real estate development firm. The project was completed in March, upon which tenants began to occupy the units. Vitra is Libeskind’s first project in South America.
The Performing Arts Centre Praça das Artes is situated in the centre of São Paulo, an area that has suffered from economic decline and urban degradation for decades. The new complex is inserted into a series of interconnected formerly underused or vacant spaces and can be accessed from three sides of the urban block. The historic building of the former Dramatic and Musical Conservatory and the façade of the Cairo Cinema have been incorporated into the complex and thus gained new significance by providing important physical and symbolic references to the past.
Architects: Brasil Arquitetura, Francisco Fanucci and Marcelo Ferraz with Luciana Dornellas
Project: Praça das Artes Performing Arts Centre
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Photography: Nelson jon
Software used: Autocad
Brasil Arquitetura (Collaborators): Cícero Ferraz Cruz, Fabiana Fernandes Paiva, Anselmo Turazzi, Carol Silva Moreira
Brasil Arquitetura (Team): Anne Dieterich, Beatriz Marques de Oliveira, Felipe Zene, Fred Meyer, Gabriel Grinspum, Gabriel Mendonça, Victor Gurgel, Pedro Del Guerra, Vinícius Spira
Brasil Arquitetura (Architectural Assistents): André Carvalho, Júlio Tarragó, Laura Ferraz
Architectural teams of the development of the construction documents:
Apiacás Arquitetos: Anderson Fabiano Freitas, Pedro Amando de Barros, Mario Tavares Moura Filho, Juliana de Araújo Antunes, Júlia Ribeiro Pinheiro, Gleuson Pinheiro, Bruno Machado Layus
Structural Design: FTOyamada
Others: Yuri Faustinoni, Elcio Yokoyama, Ingrid Taets
Situated in the Jardins, a neighborhood that is undergoing radical change, in an avenue of intense traffic, this building, facing north, appears as an organic incarnation of the urban and natural “aggressions” suffered by a tropical city. The noise, the insulation and the intense traffic are the building materials that feed this project. In spite of its important aspect, the building is not blind or deaf, but was born from the energy of its context, and uses it to re-qualify itself, as if in a boomerang effect .
The architectural firm Fernandes is developing, in consortium with engineering firm EBEI, the Basic and Executive Projects of Total Reurbanization and Redevelopment for Rail Capivari’s Park, set belonging to the Railroad Campos do Jordão (EFCJ).
Currently, EFCJ operates a system of activities turned to tourism, consisting of various services operating in the 47km rail extension linked between two tourist parks: one in Piracuama, in the municipality of Pindamonhangaba, and the other in Capivari’s (Campos do Jordão), which is also the cabel car service.
Project: Basic and Executive Projects of Total Reurbanization and Redevelopment for Rail Capivari’s Park
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Author: Daniel Hopf Fernandes
Team: Luis Henrique de Lima, Celso Jun Nawa, Felipe Colturato Coimbra, Cécilia Stéphanie Dufresne de La Chauvinière, Karen Yoko Sato, Filipe Cruvinel Câmara Martins, Rodrigo Noleto
Client: Secretaria dos Transportes Metropolitanos (STM)
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V_Itaim is a small building with 10 apartments in São Paulo designed by studio mk27. Its simplicity and the search for generous spaces in a careful composition of material oriented the architectural project.
The façade of the building is done in exposed reinforced concrete and wooden panels, conceived to shade the inner environments and which the residents can move according to their desires. In this way, the users can optimize their comfort depending on their use and the incidence of the sun.
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