Native structure studio FGMF Arquitetos has created a multi-use skyscraper in São Paulo named POD Pinheiros that features an open-air central atrium.
The 24-storey tower was constructed within the metropolis’s Pinheiros district as housing that concurrently creates vertical public house containing retailers.
It consists of eight storeys of retail, balconies and walkways organized round an open-air atrium accessed from the road. A residential tower sits on high of the atrium.
“The bottom’s quantity, with its inexperienced balconies, open footbridges, huge openings and its horizontal proportions are a part of the city panorama, for everybody that passes by the constructing,” mentioned FGMF. “Subsequently, the primary a part of the constructing is designed as a component within the pedestrian scale, as an city design, not like an remoted aspect out of its context.”
From the outside, the constructing employs various colors and shapes on the facade, highlighting the totally different packages and makes use of with boxy volumes that jut out in the direction of the road.
The atrium is accessed by way of the road, the place a collection of monumental concrete pillars body a break within the facade that connects the street-side plaza with the interior one.
Within the atrium, purple paint contrasts with concrete to stress the peak and depth of the house.
Concrete balconies, pillars and walkways join the house, which is open on the high and has giant open areas within the partitions that look out over town.
The eighth ground is a leisure and facilities house that acts as a separator between the retail and residential packages of the tower.
A wide range of planters have been put in within the inner and exterior balconies.
“The placement and land’s format influenced the POD volumetry, which rises from a giant inner void of bizarre and fascinating proportions, the brilliant purple courtyard,” mentioned the studio.
“The tower rises with quite a lot of inexperienced balconies made out of traces and packing containers, bringing, all the way in which up, a brand new contribution to the city panorama.”
The residential facet of the constructing is clad in a darker materials and has gray and white balconies and window packing containers.
It consists of 127 residences, together with six duplexes. On the high stage is a pool and lounge house for visitors.
Developed by Nortis Incorporadora, POD was accomplished final yr as a part of town’s redevelopment grasp plan.
FGMF consists of Fernando Forte, Lourenço Gimenes and Rodrigo Marcondes Ferraz and relies in São Paulo. The studio has usually utilized stacked types for its undertaking, like in a home on a sloping web site within the metropolis’s suburbs.
Not too long ago, São Paulo has seen numerous design and structure initiatives that try to rejuvenate elements of town, probably the most populous within the Americas. These embrace the current completion of its tallest skyscraper as a part of a growth within the japanese area.
The images is by Fran Parente.
