PLACE

São Paulo

PROJECT YEAR

2016 | 2018

PROJECT AREA

12.195 m²

To design, in an area of approximately 10,000 square meters, an environment to be used by 1.5 million pedestrians who pass daily through the Avenida Paulista region, São Paulo’s postcard, inviting them to enjoy culture, art, gastronomy, coexistence, and leisure. This was the drive for Levisky Arquitetos in the development of the “Diversity Boulevard” project.

The Urban Renewal proposal includes a street design that levels the ground floor of the buildings around the new Boulevard, located between Avenida Paulista, Avenida Rio Claro, parts of São Carlos do Pinhal street and Itapeva street, in addition to the underground passage for vehicles, expanding the public space for pedestrian circulation, ensuring accessibility and universal design.

Integrated with the Cidade Matarazzo complex, it is an effective model of the connection between public, semi-public, and private spaces, ensuring enjoyment, accessibility, cultural, social, and economic integration.

The requalification of the urban space provides solutions for urban infrastructures such as drainage pavers, urban drainage reusing rainwater, public lighting, landscaping, distribution of water and energy consumption, and telecommunications. Besides offering a space to pedestrians, after renewing the floor completely, create new spaces for leisure, socializing, entertainment and art, new urban furniture, more afforestation with native trees and kiosks dedicated to organic markets.

The work developed also includes strategic consultancy and coordination of licensing processes for Cidade Matarazzo Complex and Urban Intervention in the road system, including interfaces with relevant public agencies, concessionaires, and specialized consultants.

PLACE

São Paulo

PROJECT YEAR

2016 | 2017

INTERVENTION AREA

586.630 m²

A strategic opportunity to create, through urban renewal, a growth-inducing pole with great potential to bring back vitality and diversify the use of one of the most upscale neighborhoods in the largest Brazilian city, shaping the Masterplan proposal for Urban Renewal and Heritage Preservation for São Paulo Jockey Club.

Based on the Urban Intervention Project (PIU, in Portuguese), the opportunity to qualify the potential of space with a size of 536 thousand square meters, currently used for private events underpins a project that mix public interest interventions with solutions and opportunities for economic sustainability and feasibility as well as to preserve the financial situation of the club.

To diversify and requalify the use of the venue, we propose the construction of new buildings for residential, institutional, cultural, corporate, services, and commercial purposes. Promoting new options for leisure, healthy activities, well-being, social life, culture, entertainment, housing, work, tourism, and gastronomy.

In addition to the restoration and preservation of this heritage-listed site and the creation of a large private park for public use, this project transforms the Jockey Club into a genuine center of urban development.

PLACE

São Paulo

PROJECT YEAR

2014 | 2015

CONSTRUCTION YEAR

2015 | 2016

BEDS

369

LAND AREA

8.100 m²

BUILDING AREA

25.000 m²

Vila Santa Catarina Municipal Hospital is a public-private partnership between the City of São Paulo and Albert Einstein Hospital. The private institution is responsible for administering this highly complex hospital that serves patients through the Unified Health System (SUS).

Based on the institution’s interest in establishing this partnership, Levisky Arquitetos developed the Hospital Master Plan, which defines the new intended assistance program, sizing, and occupation of the existing building.

To meet the assistance, functional and operational demands, in addition to the spatial adaptations of the building, the renovation project and its strategic planning foresee adaptations and extensions to ensure compliance with safety, accessibility, building, and sanitary standards, as well as redefining hospital flows and segregation.

Photos: Archive

PLACE

São Paulo

PROJECT YEAR

2006 | 2007

COMPLETION

2008

LAND AREA

13.648 m²

BUILDING AREA

2.650 m²

To rehabilitate an abandoned and contaminated area next to its building, Abril Publishing house sought the office to be the mediator with the city of São Paulo, owner of the land, and to propose an opening project to the public. The Publisher house wanted to create an environment to offer graphic arts courses, in connection with its industry.

Based on this proposal, Levisky Arquitetos used its expertise and designed a public-private partnership model, generating a cooperation term for the rehabilitation of that area, in which the city government would give up the use of space and the company would take care of the execution of the project and the maintenance of activities in the square.

Given the high impact of soil decontamination, the office designed a large suspended wooden deck, with spaces for walking and permanence for visitors to circulate and engage in activities. The concept of Sustainability Open Museum was created to explain the solutions given to the problems in the area, and a permanent exhibition inside the building of an old incinerator, to teach how space was renewed.

The architectural language adopted in the renovation of the building opted for the aesthetics of brutality so that the place is part now of the recovery history. Hanging Gardens were also installed, with rainwater collection and gardening systems, in addition to landscaping with phytotherapeutic plants and biofuels.

In a context in which sustainability discussion was new, the work did not only enabled a bridge between public and private authorities in this direction, but also brought practical responses to a degraded urban environment. These solutions, in turn, brought permanent didactic and cultural gains for the population of the city as a whole.

 Co-authorship Anna Julia Martins Dietzsch

Photos: Nelson Kon, Nathalie Artaxo and Pedro Mascaro