The Matarazzo city in São Paulo is a project with three stores, a restaurant, a bar and an art gallery. Stores should have access to the city, while the restaurant should be on the upper floors.
The complex was conceived as a binary metal structure: a “ground” level that receives the stores and a “spatial” level called “the Observatory”, which houses the restaurant where the Franco-Brazilian restaurateurs of Groupe Chez have created their new meeting place: Chez Oscar.
Located in a street where the buildings are neighbors of each other, the observatory is not an extra step, it is a building above a building, the city above the city. It opens a new dimension of growth in the commercial complex and overlooks the Oscar Freire district of São Paulo.
A massive and cubic volume, the observatory is balanced on an asymmetrical structure that presents a kinetic and operates a break between the street level and the upper level. Completely covered with stainless steel, the reflections are distorted and fuzzy over time, under the effect of tropical storms.
In the Matarazzo city, the architects of Triptych were strongly inspired by the concept of the Yona Friedman space city, created in 1959. It is an artificial topography composed of aerial megacities answering the problem of the rapid demographic growth in the big zones. of the world. He draws a city in three dimensions that multiplies the original surface of the city with high plans, creating a new map of the territory.
The Oscar Freire Observatory sees architecture as a dynamic form, between materiality and potentiality, open to user interaction and environmental conditions. It was inaugurated in October 2013.
General manager: Luiz Trindade | Project manager: Aline D´Avola | Credits: Leonardo Finotti, Pedro Kok
