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DAY 01: CANTINHO DO CÉU - CIDADE JARDIM: SYMBOLISM
Besides perserving an empty stripe of about a hundred meters width the National Powerline Along the western boundary of Cantinho do Céu has landmark character. Within the masterplan of the SEHAB for the area Marcos Boldarini Architects propose a upgrade of the lakeshore for it to become a leisure area for the inhabitants. A lighthouse at the edge of the Gaivotas shore would emblematicly undermine this ambition.
While the informal city might be lacking specific identification points, most buildings in Cidade Jardim are perversly extravagant, their façades a collage of symbolic potency.
DAY 02: PARAISOPOLIS - CHE GUEVARA IN TIRADENTES: ARCHITECTURE
Informal Paraisopolis is forming a homogenious tissue of two to four story brick and concrete structures which is only disrupted at certain points by larger inserts - the formal structures of the CEU or social housing units. There exists a representational façade architecture along the main street grid which in most cases is limited to colors or tiles, but can have exeptional character like the at the Assembléia de Deus with an abstract slik metallic skin.
The social housing project Che Guevara in Tiradentes are five equal four-story housing units with four mirrored appartments à 56sqm per floor. In contrast to the flexible ad-hoc structures of Paraisópolis it's adaptability seems minor.
DAY 03: CENTRO COMERCIAL ALPHAVILLE - HÉTOR VIGLIECCA: ARCHITECTURE
The Centro Comercial Alphaville is a gated outdoor shopping center. Its architecture imitates a organicly grown building structure and projects the image of a holiday pedestrian town. Everything is decoration. Even the exterior powerlines are only a facsimile.
Hétor Vigliecca in the contrary works with real organically grown structures in an architectural way, accepting the existing patterns and transforming them by punctually inserting new architectural objects. His project for Paraisopolis - which due to politics won't be realized - proposes to increase the length of the public façades by erasing some of the urban tissue of the blocks and insert bridge-like structures to interconnect the blocks. On a larger scale Vigliecca tries to mend the urban tissues of the informal and the formal city by placing main transportation roads of the formal city inside Paraisópolis.
The Centro Comercial Alphaville is a gated outdoor shopping center. Its architecture imitates a organicly grown building structure and projects the image of a holiday pedestrian town. Everything is decoration. Even the exterior powerlines are only a facsimile.
Hétor Vigliecca in the contrary works with real organically grown structures in an architectural way, accepting the existing patterns and transforming them by punctually inserting new architectural objects. His project for Paraisopolis - which due to politics won't be realized - proposes to increase the length of the public façades by erasing some of the urban tissue of the blocks and insert bridge-like structures to interconnect the blocks. On a larger scale Vigliecca tries to mend the urban tissues of the informal and the formal city by placing main transportation roads of the formal city inside Paraisópolis.
DAY 04: MARTINELLI BUILDING - CORTICOS: ARCHITECTURE
The Martinelly Building has widely been discussed in history books as the first highrise in São Paolo. Its historising Architecture becomes particularly peculiar when standing on its roof in todays urban setting. Surrounding highrises have surpassed it. The stone balustrade and massive cornices as well as the 'villa of the owner' have an architectural language alien to highrises. It is a peculiar moment of discomfort when acceeding the rooftop terrace. Instead of overlooking lush vegetation from a Paladian villa, a view of the urban fabric of the city opens up all around.
Cortiços are squatted building structures. We visited disused factory halls that are inhabited informally. Overlooking the enormous density and the lack of hygienic infrastructure, the long interior streets that serve as semi public spaces confined by sometimes multi-story lightweight constructions might be an intersting model for semi-formal squatter movements.
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