Heliópolis Social Housing: New Campinas Homes

Heliópolis Social Housing: New Campinas Homes

In a rare opportunity for the city of São Paulo, the isolated tower architectural model is replaced by the traditional European urban block model, with the buildings occupying its perimeter and conforming an inner courtyard with public access.

Cristo Rei Elementary School, São Paulo

Cristo Rei Elementary School São Paulo building

Located in the neighborhood of Vila Mariana, São Paulo, the Cristo Rei school is part of the region´s growth history. The school was established in the 30´s on one of the neighborhood´s main street.

Souzas House in Campinas, SP Property

Souzas

Architect: Flavio Castro. The slope of the land allows a great view that opens from the street level. This panorama establishes continuity between the project and the city of Campinas.

House Three in Morumbi, Sao Paolo, Brazil

House Three, Morumbi 1

Architect: Flavio Castro. The slope of the land and height of six meters over the neighbor later allow distant view that opens from the street level. This panorama establishes continuity between the treetops the Morumbi neighborhood in São Paulo and the skyline buildings.

Itahye House in Sao Paolo Property

Itahye House, Brazil 1

Architect: Flavio Castro. Created as a large pavilion that offers many possibilities of occupation, the enclosed space of the house are comparable to the islands strategically positioned because of functionality. Inspired by Le Corbusier’s Domino concept, the structure is composed by horizontal slabs and pillars displaced off the facades.

Pernambuco House in Sao Paolo Property

Pernambuco House

Architect: Flavio Castro. No frontiers between the connected environments grouped by function are the major feature of the Pernambuco house. The architect drew 4 virtual axes perpendicular to the street to organize the distribution of internal and external environments.

Maranhão Apartment in Higienópolis, Sao Paolo

Maranhao Apartment

The original structure was exposed and the materials are shown with sincerity. The concrete, glass and steel combine a sober color palette and contrast with some pieces that give identity to the flexible space.

Mirante Do Horto House, São Paulo

Mirante Do Horto House 3

Architect: Flavio Castro. The concept of the house has a strong influence of national and international artistic movements such as the modern architecture and Bauhaus. I believe that architecture is the result of an academic reflection on real needs that creates possibilities according to the culture, environment, etc.

Acapulco House in Brazil Property

Acapulco House

Architect: Flavio Castro. The house is composed by 6 squares grouped in pairs. Within this compositional rule, two subtractions were made at opposite sides to form two venues: the garage in the front and the social area behind

TRIPTYQUE Exhibition São Paulo

TRIPTYQUE Exhibition

The installation celebrates with a utopia-monument, the social movements that took place in the winter of 2013, in São Paulo. It reactivates one of the primary functions of the architecture, which consists in remembering a crucial historical event.

Deliqatê restaurant São Paulo, Brasil

Deliqatê restaurant São Paulo

Occupying a lot at Alameda Jaú in the Jardins district, in São Paulo, Brazil, Deliqatê is a restaurant specialized in gourmet sandwiches and is the first enterprise from this group of investors whose intention is to take it to other capital cities in the country.

Apartment Interior in Higienópolis – São Paulo

Apartment Interior in Higienópolis São Paulo

The biggest challenge was the conversion of a family apartment compartmented into an apartment for a young single advertiser, and retrofitting existing securities repaginating brought from other apartment.

Planalto house – São Paulo Property

Planalto house São Paulo property

Contemporary House in Planalto Paulista: The way of appropriation of the 800 square meters available for the establishment of the house (20x40m) is quite clear.

Casa Rex São Paulo office in Pacaembu, Brasil

Casa Rex São Paulo office in Pacaembu, Brasil

Plural, contemporary and investigative projects, concerning mainly the use of materials and the urban interaction, are fundamental characteristics of the works by Brazilian architecture office FGMF Arquitetos.