Novo Santo Amaro V Park Housing / Vigliecca&Associados

Architects: Vigliecca&Associados
Location: São Paulo, Brasil
Architecture & Masterplan: VIGLIECCA&ASSOC
Project Team: Héctor Vigliecca, Luciene Quel, Neli Shimizu, Ronald Werner, Caroline Bertoldi, Kelly Bozzato, Pedro Ichimaru, Bianca Riotto, Mayara Rocha Christ, Fábio Pittas, Thaísa Fróes, Aline Ollertz, Sérgio Faraulo, Paulo Serra, Luci Maie
Project Area: 13500 sqm
Project Year: 2012
Photographs: Leonardo Finotti, Cortesia de VIGLIECCA&ASSOC

Management: Consórcio Hagaplan JNS / Consórcio ETEP Sondotécnica
Infraestruture: MC Engenharia
Foundation Engineering: Berfac Consultoria de Solos e Fundações
Concrete Structure: Camilo Engenharia
Steel Structure: Projeto Alpha; Prometal Engenharia
Mep Engineering: Procion Engenharia
Contractor: Consórcio Mananciais: Construbase e Engeform
Client: Prefeitura do Município de São Paulo – SEHAB

From the architect. We understand residence as a synonym of city. And we do understand that housing production on a large scale constitutes a basic part of the city production.

Collective architecture projects must generate comprehensible and visible sectors willing to organize the scale by confronting the real city and rejecting heroic formalities.

We believe that housing production must value the variety and the identity, which can be reached through a respectable relationship with geography and solidarity with the existent.

The project is located in the south area of Sao Paulo Municipality, in Guarapiranga dam region, within a protected water spring area.

The intervention area totalizes 5,4 ha, and it is inserted into a Special Zone of Social Interest (ZEIS 1). It is formed by public areas and irregularly occupied plot settlements.

Este eixo caracterizado como um parque linear é o elemento que estrutura todo o conjunto das intervenções. Ele será um eixo de uso público que qualificará a área, estimulando o sentimento de identidade dos moradores com o lugar.

Sketch. Image Courtesy of VIGLIECCA&ASSOC

The project general guideline objective is the creation, along the existing watercourse, of a green central axis, characterized as a linear park, structuring the whole intervention group. It is designed as an animated axis that qualifies the area, stimulating an identification feeling toward its inhabitants.

Both leisure and educational equipment are installed at the axis edges, working as attraction points in order to stimulate the people to circulate and, therefore, to guarantee the place security as well as its entertainment.

No outro extremo da área de projeto, patamares, degraus e bancos se acomodam no terreno reafirmando, de maneira lúdica, o grande desnível topográfico existente. Anfiteatros abertos, playgrounds e pista de skate garantem animação e uma densa arborização com várias espécies darão condição ambiental adequada.

The housing buildings compose the interface between the official street of the surroundings and the park internal area.

Location. Image Courtesy of VIGLIECCA&ASSOC

They are comprised of access on both sides in order to assure the circulation, and, consequently, the security and maintenance of the external-internal areas of the complex.

As famílias removidas do local serão relocadas para as unidades habitacionais criadas na mesma área, tendo ainda uma quantidade maior de apartamentos, que atenderá a demanda de outros setores da região, que também se encontram em áreas de risco.