French-Brazilian structure studio Triptyque has accomplished an 85-metre-tall residential tower in São Paulo that provides its occupants indoor-outdoor residing.
The 24-storey constructing is a part of the Onze22 growth, which features a smaller adjoining construction. Within the residential tower, balconies wrap the constructing on three sides, permitting residences to increase outdoor.
Triptyque aimed to supply “whole fluidity between exterior and inside”, a top quality that isn’t typical in high-rise houses.
It did this by combining floor-to-ceiling glazing with concrete floorplates that mission out from the constructing quantity.
This implies residences may be fully opened up on not less than one facet, permitting residing areas to merge with lined balconies that vary from widths of seven to 22 metres.
The balconies are interspersed with sv vertical semi-opaque shading screens and a few of these balconies combine planting alongside the perimeters.
“Every level on the balcony invitations you to look at São Paulo, offering limitless views and, on the corners, the potential of letting your gaze go in several instructions,” stated Triptyque co-founder Gui Sibaud.
Onze22 is the fourth mission that the Paris- and São Paulo-based studio has designed for Brazilian housing developer Thought!Zarvos.
Recognized for its revolutionary strategy, the developer usually works with well-known architects. Earlier schemes embrace the 360º Constructing designed by Isay Weinfeld and Ourânia designed by Studio MK27.
This mission is situated in Vila Madalena, an prosperous, bohemian neighbourhood within the west of São Paulo.
It supplies 243 houses, with 88 studio residences within the smaller of the 2 blocks and a mixture of one- and two-bedroom residences within the 85-metre tower.
The whole constructing has a way of visible lightness, because of the slender concrete floorplates. These are supported by concrete columns that reach by way of the construction from prime to backside, changing into pilotis the place they meet the bottom.
“Pilotis enable for a clean and subtle transition between the general public – the road – and the non-public,” added Triptyque co-founder Olivier Raffaëlli.
The 2 blocks are linked by a four-storey podium, though the size of the smaller block is basically hidden because of it being partially sunken into the sloping floor.
A panorama scheme by backyard designer Rodrigo Oliveira surrounds the bottom of the constructing in tropical greenery.
The purpose was for it to “emerge from a inexperienced belt as if it had been a dominant residing tree”, in response to Triptyque.
Triptyque is liable for many buildings in São Paulo, with different notable examples together with the Crimson Bull Station cultural centre and the Leitão 653 inventive studios.
Different current additions to the São Paulo skyline embrace the Platina 220 skyscraper, which lately grew to become the Brazilian metropolis’s tallest constructing, and the MN15 Ibirapuera residential tower.
The images is by Maíra Acayaba and Edu Castello.
Mission credit
Consumer: Thought!Zarvos
Structure: Triptyque Structure
Mission staff: Gui Sibaud, Olivier Raffaëlli, Carol Bueno, Greg Bousquet, João Vieira, Renata Cupini, Julio Prieto, Larissa Higa, Victor Hertel, Marina Olivi, Natália Shiroma
Landscaping: Rodrigo Oliveira
