Exterior View
Interior Courtyard
Ground Floor Plan
First Floor Plan
Typical Floor Plan
Communal Space
CIrculation Spaces
Entrance Situation
Interior Living Space
Section Short
Section Long
Roof Floor Plan
This project, Mitigating Urban Peripheries, examines and reacts to Barra Funda’s urban history, urban voids, current change, and a drastic demand for densification. Although the rate of population growth is slowly decreasing, Sao Paulo faces a shortage of housing for almost 1 million people.
The project draws on the communal aspects of the city, safely blurring the public and the private and mitigating urban peripheries. The silhouette of the project becomes a familiar image to its surrounding urban fabric. Being delicately integrated into its urban setting. The urban life remains on the streetscape and the harsh verticality of the condominium is diminished.
Mitigating Urban Peripheries
Architect: Pascal Henle
Tutors: Nelson Mota, Vanessa Grossman, Harald Mooij
Year: 2021
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Status: Proposal