The city of São Paulo, Brazil, is a booming metropolis of business, art, and architecture. Paulista Avenue, the main access through the city, has become a symbol of wealth. Our semester project was to develop an intervention bridging the elite and the everyday man. A social housing project designed to “Fill in the Gap.”
The social-housing project will assimilate the low and high class of São Paulo. The two groups will educate and learn from each other through interactions on our site. Our intervention area is right adjacent to the FIESP Cultural Center. The lectures and exhibits within the FIESP will be a resource the lower class may not have had access to before the project. This will stimulate cultural growth in the city.
This project aims to uphold the family environment created within the favelas of Brazil while aiming to minimize crime. It will maintain a strong level of comradery and high quality of life. Our intervention has a parasitic relation- ship where it benefits and feeds from the environment that surrounds it.
