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São Paulo
2007 – 2008

Client
IV Inc.

Architects
Triptyque

Surface
1 100 m²

Ground
550 m²

The Harmonia project, located in an artistically vibrant district that is occasionally prone to flooding, features artists’ studios designed as a living organism. Rejecting the idea of finished construction, it evolves dynamically through interconnected elements such as rain, recovery, and irrigation. Harmonia’s project gives rise to a hybrid – Cyborg – architecture. Plumbing pipes and tanks are integral to its “low-tech” design, serving both functional and aesthetic purposes. The volumes built around a central plot provide a neutral base, while vegetative elements grow from pores and evolve over time. Internal workshop spaces are sleek and minimalist, and the terraces offer views of the skyline.

Located in the heart of a district with a strong artistic vocation, where galleries and walls offer various forms of expression and occupation, the Harmonia project, composed of artists’ studios occupies a ground marked by frequent occasional floods.

Designed as a living organism, the building proposes in this context, a questioning of the construction as finished / manufactured object, showing different phases of its evolution under the joint action of interconnected dynamic entities (rain / recovery / pumping / irrigation / plant growth).

The Harmonia project stages the hydric system that dynamically marries the parcel in all its length, whose “low-tech” elements (plumbing pipes, tanks, diffusers) propose various elements of modenature, some of which constitute the guardians. body of the building.

The volumes built are organized around a plot in the heart of the plot. They function as a neutral and primitive base, pierced by sparse pores sheltering vegetable shoots, whose evolutionary and heterogeneous aesthetic will assume over time molds and drips as constitutive elements.

In contrast, the internal spaces of workshops treated smoothly and monastically will benefit from guns and terraces / patios. These have protruding concrete lips, which allows to offer framing on the skyline of the Vila Madalena.

Landscaper
Peter Webb

Coordinator
Tiago Guimarães

Credits
Nelson Kon, Triptyque, Beto Consorte, Leonardo Finotti, Ricardo Bassetti