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Architects: Núcleo de Arquitetura
- Area: 7015 m²
- Year: 2003
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Photographs:Nelson Kon
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Landscape Design: CGM, Núcleo de Arquitetura, Caio Machado, Luciana Maragliano
Text description provided by the architects. This project arose out of dialogue with the host context, its immediate physical surroundings, its history and, above all, with its vocation as an urban focus for general public interaction. The site in question features: a shopping centre, an institution dedicated to education and cultural preservation (Estação Ciências USP), a densely wooded public square and the remnants of the old Lapa tram depot – a building of great significance in the city’s history of collective transport. In establishing its new relations, the project recognises this array of elements, including those from the past, in a natural and far from subservient manner.
