Author: Eloísa Balieiro Ikeda | ArchDaily

A fluvial metropolis: project for the Lageado River Basin in São Paulo

Eloísa Balieiro Ikeda — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Urban rivers, across their various scales, can serve as structuring axes for urbanization with high environmental quality. The focus of this article, based on concepts developed by the Fluvial Metropolis Group, is the Lageado Creek Basin, located at the easternmost edge of the municipality of São Paulo and part of the municipality of Ferraz de Vasconcelos. The Tietê River, into which the basin's waters flow, the Lageado, and its tributaries establish three scales of rivers and urbanization, accommodating distinct programs related to water use: from regional navigation and energy to neighborhood-scale fluvial parks, spanning water supply, drainage, energy, and irrigation.

Logbook, from Bogotá to Medellín: Latin American River Landscapes

Eloísa Balieiro Ikeda — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 06:00:00 +0000

Traveling to Colombia, as a Brazilian, felt like recognizing a sister country. Over the course of a month, as a participant in the Field Stations workshop, I recorded personal perspectives of my impressions of the places visited. The theme is the river landscape, and the records carry the fragility and subjectivity of a logbook. The desire to share them is driven by the desire to express this sense of identification, showing how I saw similarities between us—problems, complexities, and beauties—as well as the clear recognition that we would be stronger together. It envisions the idea of eliminating the invisible borders that separate us and uniting peoples divided by colonizers.

Architectures of the São Francisco River: A Travel Diary

Eloísa Balieiro Ikeda — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 06:00:00 +0000

These river journeys are intended for on-site research, documentation, and data collection focusing on rivers. They are conducted by researchers from the Fluvial Metropolis Group of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo (FAUUSP), coordinated by Professor Alexandre Delijaicov. Each researcher maps out their itinerary based on personal interests, yet shares a common goal: to gather design references for fluvial infrastructure architecture, expanding the research group's imaginary and repertoire. The driving question for the researchers is: how do people relate to the river waters flowing through their metropolises, cities, or towns within the built environment along the riverbanks? The boundary defined by the elements of land and water is the starting point for this observation.