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The design of the Victor Civita Plaza – Open Museum of Sustainability was based on the ever growing issue of contaminated urban lands. Situated on an existing brown field site in São Paulo, Brazil the design needed to accomodate a large and varied program. More photographs and drawings following the break.
Architects: Levisky Arquitectos Associados
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Project Architects: Adriana Levisky, Anna Julia Dietzsch (Managing Director of Davis Brody Bond’s Sao Paulo office)
Project Coordinator: Renata Gomes
Project Designers: Casey Mahon, Tatiana Antonelli, Lilian Braga, Luciana Magalhaes, Renata Helena de Paula, Catia Portuguese
Project Team: Fernando Lima, Marcelo Ignatios, Gabriela Kuntz
MEP Engineering: Grau Engenharia
Structral Engineering: Companhia de Projectos
Lighting: Franco & Fortes
Landscape Architecture: Benedito Abbud Paisagismo
Management: CeeMeeSee Engenharia
Foundation Engineering: Zaclis & Falconi Engenheiros Associados
Geotechnical Engineering: Alphageos Tecnologia Aplicada
Reuse of Water: Eduardo Oliveira
Acoustics: Fernando Iazzetta
Wood and Forest Resources: IPT
Photographs: Nelson Kon
© Nelson Kon
The design became inherent to the composition of the public-private partnership between City and private sector, being revealed as a defining player in the urban political scenario and the regeneration of the brown field in São Paulo.
© Nelson Kon
The architects created a grand wooden deck surface that rests on the site without excavations. Like the structure of a boat, it creates “urban plazas” that accommodate different public uses and guides the user through a lesson on sustainability processes.
program plan
water recycling
