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

Água Branca – SP

PROJECT YEAR

2015

PROJECT AREA

145.215 m²

SP-Urbanismo promoted, in 2015, with the organization of the IAB-SP (Institute of Architects of Brazil), a National Public Tender for the development of the Preliminary Study of an Urbanization Plan for the subsector A1 of Água Branca Consortium Operation.

Considering the area in front of Tietê River, one of the main water axes of São Paulo, the project seeks a relationship with the river to bring a new urban front, disciplining the use of cars and thinking primarily on pedestrians and the possibility of experiencing sensations and perceptions at different scales, through a pedestrian plot. Pedestrians cross the neighborhood through a promenade marked by a collective ground floor with shops, services, and institutional equipment, integrated into the CEU Territory, where it forms a large square that articulates other cultural and sports facilities.

Public enjoyment is seen as the essence of the project and gives the neighborhood more humanized spaces for public use on a scale proportional to pedestrians since it is open to free circulation and supported by cycle paths. Compliance with the minimum percentages of green and institutional areas are strategically distributed in several lots of the project, including the ground floor of residential condominiums and equipment inside CEU facilities. Urban parameters and requirements were fully met, considering the gross application for all the land.

Honorable Mention

 Work carried out in partnership with: Barbosa and Corbucci Arquitetos Associados

PLACE

São Paulo

PROJECT YEAR

2011 | 2012

CONSTRUCTION YEAR

2012 (under construction)

URBANISTIC PLAN

1.537.550 m²

URBAN PROJECT AREA

308.090 m²

São Paulo City grew on and around a rich hydrological system. São Paulo created the Water Supply Recovery Program aiming, among other aspects, to rescue these waters, to preserve the remaining areas of the springs, to regularize the occupation of the lands that contaminate water, and to encourage leisure in the Billings and Guarapiranga dams.

In this context, Levisky Arquitetos was responsible for the urban requalification project of the Mata Virgem area, also known as Morro dos Macacos, one of the 64 intervention areas of this program, due to its profile permanently threatened by irregular occupations always exposed to landslide risk.

The intervention establishes guidelines to recover waters, land tenure regularization, preservation of the remaining areas near the springs, and the incentive to enjoy the dam for leisure.

The urban plan foresees a linear park, named Mosaico Morro dos Macacos Park, with tree density, public equipment such as daycare centers and squares, and mixed housing and commercial units.

PLACE

São Paulo

PROJECT YEAR

2011

CONSTRUCTION YEAR

2012 (under construction)

URBANISTIC PLAN

180.680 m²

URBAN PROJECT

66.560 m²

DWELLINGS

146 units

Based on the principle that urban renewal is capable of promoting improvement in the quality of life of the population, as a right to the city, as an offer of urban infrastructure and public services, in 2011 Levisky Arquitetos presented an intervention proposal in Jardim Colombo Center, located in Paraisópolis, South of São Paulo.

As part of the Program for the Re-urbanization of Favelas and the recovery of water sources, the demand presented by the Housing Secretariat of São Paulo had as a basic premise the implementation of a Linear Park along Colombo Stream, relocating families in vulnerable areas to new housing units.

After understanding the population needs, in a collaborative management model, the urban project sets a limit of protection to the stream and expands the intervention area.

The proposal defines structural axes for the project: mobility, connection with the road system and access to public transportation; the permanence of local commerce; definition of new areas for housing; supply of equipment, and urban infrastructure.

Thus, along the linear park, a new road integrates Jardim Colombo with the neighboring community and organizes new lots occupied by mixed-use buildings, with local shops and housing units in addition to the institutional health and sports buildings.

The drainage system solution is an open channeling of the stream, recovering the existing spring and the execution of a basic sanitation system for the entire community. In this way, it seeks to rescue water as an element, as an inducer of the qualified public space, stimulating the population and expanding the possibilities of sports, cultural, social, coexistence, and belonging to the place.

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

2009 | 2017

PROJECT AREA

38.100 m²

 

Concerned with rescuing heritage, public space, history, and memory of Bixiga neighborhood, in Bela Vista, downtown São Paulo, a network of local community associations and entities invited Levisky Arquitetos to seek solutions for Praça 14 Bis renewal.

Among other requests, the proposal had to meet the needs of the region, including reorganizing public transportation, green areas, pedestrian walks, public spaces devoted to memory, leisure, entertainment and gastronomic and artistic tourism that characterize the neighborhood that is so relevant to the city.

Combined with the demands and the macro infrastructure solutions planned for the city, the proposal is part of the Urban Intervention Plan. It considers the demolition of Doutor Plínio de Queiroz bridge, moving traffic flow to an underground passage, in addition to macro drainage solutions, rainwater reservoirs, and car-prepared surfaces with draining floors along Nove de Julho avenue.

Considering the landmarks of the neighborhood, where 14 Bis Square is located, the proposal includes expansion of the square itself, the green walks and the public promenade, in addition to the creation of leisure and sports areas, connected by new paved structures and urban furniture, promoting mobility and expanding possibilities of people permanence.

PLACE

Salvador – BA

PROJECT YEAR

2014 | 2015

PROJECT AREA

105.950 m²

The Old Downtown of Salvador – CAS, has great relevance in the historical context of the capital of Bahia State and the country, given its cultural, historical, social, and gastronomic diversity. In the last 30 years, it has undergone several disjointed interventions and presents a significant concentration of social problems, which contributed, among other factors, to the degradation of the built heritage and the worsening of already poor labor conditions, housing, health and leisure of local people.

Seeking to change this scenario, the State Government of Bahia, Secretariats, and Unesco establish the CAS Rehabilitation Plan, aiming, among other ideas, to establish instruments that would make the Old Downtown sustainable, integrating it with the social, urban and economic dynamics of the modern city.

Within this context, Levisky Arquitetos worked on structuring and modeling the socio-economic development plan of Old Downtown of Salvador, focusing on housing, connections, and urban mobility, valuing historic urban aspects and implementing new urban facilities.

The proposal considers the preservation of the slope area of the frontispiece, promoting housing and institutional use of CAS, the dynamization of trade, the revitalization of the seafront, the optimization of environmental conditions, and the renewal of urban equipment.

PLACE

São Paulo

PROJECT YEAR

2016

LAND AREA

60.305 m²

Based on the demand of the São Paulo State Housing Office, the precarious mobility conditions in the districts in the eastern region of the city and the demand for quality housing next to main avenues that connect the East Side to the city center, Levisky Arquitetos structured the Tiquatira Urban Intervention Project (PIU, in Portuguese), in the Penha neighborhood and surroundings.

The urban modeling and the feasibility study for Urban Renewal consider the implementation of the future Subway stations (Line 2 – Green) and CPTM train (Lines 12 and 13), a linear park around the Tiquatira River, and new housing projects.

PLACE

São Paulo

PROJECT YEAR

2010

CONSTRUCTION YEAR

2011

LAND AREA

2.460.000 m²

In an archeological site of 2.4 million square meters formed by a meteor crater, the occupation of irregular dwellings in an area of environmental preservation led to a demand for urban requalification. Thus, the Secretariat of Green and Environment of São Paulo needed a solution that would, on one hand, address issues of land regularization, basic sanitation, and urban infrastructure, and on the other hand, valorize environmental heritage.

Based on conversations with the local community about intentions and needs, the project foresaw the creation of public spaces such as squares, four linear parks, sidewalks, two lookouts, open areas with water treatment, channeling the existing watercourse and green areas recovery. From the lookouts, it is possible to view the geological depression of the crater, with 3.5 km in diameter.

Thus, the idea of local urban and economic development was thought by the residents themselves, considering tourism and new opportunities for trade. In this way, the proximity of Environmental Protected Area (APA, in Portuguese) Capivari-Monos raised the possibility of generating income from ecological tourism, simultaneously addressing social and environmental issues – becoming a park-museum.