JAL Real State – Office Building was conceived from some simple premises: Getting away from the traditional sealed and conditioned office, not facing the street excessively, structuring the different areas informally and functionally, and focusing on the customer service in a single place, preferentially near the entrance.
Located in São Paulo, in a Isay Weinfeld’s new building, the Ad Agency Santa Clara was designed by Sub Estudio from the architecture project to the furniture. Occupying the middle of a street block, the building consists in two different parts, a square, that is right on the middle of the street block, and a real long rectangle that makes the access to the street.
Encrusted in a row of narrow geminate houses, the story began more as a challenge rather than as an architectural project. How make the entire program of a house fit in that 4x30m lot, relying on a few illuminated surfaces?
Collaborators: Fernando Forte, Rodrigo Marcondes Ferraz, Ana Luíza Galvão, Bruno Araújo, Marcela Aleottiand Marília Caetano (architects), Mirela Caetano, Rafaela Arantes and Wilson Barcellone (interns)
The showroom of the Decameron furniture store is located on a rented site in the furniture commercial alley in São Paulo. To make the quick and economic construction viable, the project worked with the premise of a light occupation of the lot, basically done with industrial elements, which could easily be assembled.
Team: Beatriz meyer, Carolina Castroviejo, Eduardo chalabi, Eduardo glycerio, Eduardo gurian, Elisa friedmann, Gabriel kogan, Lair reis, Luciana antunes, Maria cristina motta, Renata furlanetto, Samanta cafardo, Suzana glogowki
Landscape: Renata tilli
Contractor: Terra gaia
Structure engineer: Pouguett engenharia e projetos
Visual identity: nó design
Perspective (Images Courtesy Pedro vannucchi)
The space was constructed through a mixed solution, with maritime transport containers and a specifically designed structure. Despite the spatial limitation imposed by the pre-determined dimension of the containers, the piece has impressive structural attributes that makes piling them possible. Two stories of containers form tunnels where products are displayed side by side.
Perspective (Images Courtesy Pedro vannucchi)
The ample span, necessary to show furniture in relation with each other, is constructed by a metallic structure. This space is closed, in front and in back, by double-height metal casements with alveolar polycarbonate. At the back of the lot, there is a patio filled with trees and a pebbled-ground. When both doors are simultaneously opened, the whole store becomes integrated with its urban context. At rush stressful hours, by opening only the back doors, the store becomes self-absorbed, ruled by the presence of the inner-garden.
Exterior View (Images Courtesy Pedro vannucchi)
On the back of the site is the office, closed by a glass wall that enables the designers to take part on the sales life. Two edges of the design process in contact through the inner patio as other opposing strengths also meet at this small project: The intensity of the urban life and a small nature retreat, the power of the containers and the lightness of the metallic structure and finally, the linearity of the tunnels and the cubic volume.
Images Courtesy Pedro vannucchi
Interior View (Images Courtesy Pedro vannucchi)
Images Courtesy Pedro vannucchi
Containers front View (Images Courtesy Pedro vannucchi)
Exterior View (Images Courtesy Pedro vannucchi)
Interior View (Images Courtesy Pedro vannucchi)
Exterior View (Images Courtesy Pedro vannucchi)
Interior View (Images Courtesy Pedro vannucchi)
Images Courtesy Pedro vannucchi
Interior View (Images Courtesy Pedro vannucchi)
Interior View (Images Courtesy Pedro vannucchi)
Front View (Images Courtesy Pedro vannucchi)
Side View (Images Courtesy Pedro vannucchi)
Perspective (Images Courtesy Pedro vannucchi)
Perspective (Images Courtesy Pedro vannucchi)
Exterior View (Images Courtesy Pedro vannucchi)
Images Courtesy Pedro vannucchi
Interior View (Images Courtesy Pedro vannucchi)
Images Courtesy Pedro vannucchi
Containers front View (Images Courtesy Pedro vannucchi)
The intention in designing the structures of the public visiting of the Nestlé chocolate factory is to make a generic landscape of the highway that link Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, the biggest Brazilian cities, revealing the presence of an area of visitation. This visibility is done by building towers to access the new route, in glass and steel, which in addition to the strong brand exhibition resolve the conflicting currents between production and visitation. The structural geometry and the materials used are designed to provoke a sensory and perceptual experience, and contribute to the seizure of information about the history and production of chocolate spread along the route.
Architect Team: Anna Ferrari, Gustavo Cedroni e Martin Corullon [authors]. Paloma Delgado, Paula Noia, Ricardo Canton, Alfonso Simelio [architects], Felipe Fuchs, Bruno Kim, Marina Ioshii e Pedro Mesquita [Trainees]
Jardim Maria Helena III is a Sao Paulo State School, located in the rural area of Barueri, a town in the Greater Sao Paulo metropolitan region. It provides Elementary, Middle and High education to approximately 525 students. The 2,41 acre lot where the 3.391 sqm school is located is a flat terrain surrounded by hills covered by the native Atlantic Forest. Taking these two basic features into consideration – the surrounding nature and the flatness of the lot – the project consists of two parallel two-storey buildings erected longitudinally across the flat terrain, with a large empty central space between them that opens on both sides to the surrounding hilly landscape.
The architectural project of this photography studio, specialized in food photos, emerged from an internal competition held at StudioMK27. The team was divided into 3 groups that worked on the development of different ideas for one day. From these first rough sketches a new project, which, in part, was a synthesis of all these sketches and, in part, an entirely new project, was elaborated.
The showroom of the Decameron furniture store is located on a rented site in the furniture commercial alley in São Paulo. To make the quick and economic construction viable, the project worked with the premise of a light occupation of the lot, basically done with industrial elements, which could easily be assembled.
The Garoa store is located in a small plot at one of the most sophisticated commercial streets of São Paulo, the Oscar Freire Street. We see the corner as the place where the building has its best exposure for it is there that it is two times linked to the street, to the sidewalk. Right at this encounter of streets, a dent in the building was drawn as if a portion of its volume had been extracted, defining two transparent planes, which shows the store interior and expands its presence in the corner. The indentation was thought to intensify the most immediate relationship with the public space. Even though the plot is located at the beginning of the street, the traffic has its single direction opposite to the corner in which the building is. That condition led us to think that, the sight to the corner or even to the Oscar Freire Street, will be more pleasant if taken from the oblique sights. That has the effect that the transparencies of the store do not follow lines parallel to the street, and do not reproduce a façade but rather define a volume.
One recent interior design project that highlights many of the benefits A|W has derived from using Building Information Modeling (BIM) is the Dow Chemical Company’s new Brazilian corporate headquarters—a 10-story, 12,000-square-meter building in São Paulo that will accommodate around 800 employees and include office space, an auditorium, and a restaurant, as well as laboratories and other technical facilities.
Dow Chemical Company’s new Brazilian corporate headquarters
Corporate Interior and Architectural Design Projects: Athié | Wohnrath (A|W)
Location: São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Project: Dow Chemical Company Brazilian Corporate Headquarters
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