SENSITIVE STAR
Estudio Guto Requena
ARCHITECTS
Estudio Guto Requena
AREA
1455.0 m²
PHOTOGRAPHS
Pedro Kok
YEAR
2016
VIDEO
Filmes Para Bailar
LOCATION
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL
INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION
Guto Requena
ARCHITECTURE DEVELOPMENT
Daniel Vianna
EVENT CREATED BY
Agency Hands
CATEGORY
RESTAURANTS & BARS, TEMPORARY INSTALLATIONS
DESIGN TEAM
Daniel Vianna, Guilherme Giantini, Bruno Baietto
SOFTWARE, HARDWARE AND AUDIO RESEARCH
Felipe Merker Castellani and Fernando Falci de Souza
MANUFACTURERS
Casel˙dico
Text description provided by architect.
The design developed for the 2016 edition of the event “Heineken Up On The Roof” invited the audience to have a new perspective of the city, observing its daily transformation and its chaos, but also enraptured by the magnificence and vastness of São Paulo.
It is an opportunity to declare love for this Brazilian metropolis. A temporary space, it was on the rooftop of one of the tallest buildings in Brazil,
The Mirante do Vale Building, which was constructed in 1966, under authorship of Waldomiro Zarzur and Aron Kogan, and is located in the Valley of Anhangabaú, in the historic center of São Paulo.
Abandoned for almost three decades, this rooftop was transformed into a large lounge with a bar in the covered area, and outdoor dance floor overlooking the city, finalized with an interactive art installation entitled “Sensitive Star” on the helipad.
The furniture collection “Mirante”, designed for the event, finds inspiration from the building itself and its Modernist Architecture.
The furniture’s MDF plates express the concrete lines of space and serves as both a bar and home furnishings.
The collection was published in Open Source Design (copyleft) so that anyone can download the technical files and reproduce them freely through a FabLab or Makerspace, using digital manufacturing.
A star-shaped interactive installation on the Mirante’s helipad, the Sensitive Star reacts to the stimuli of moving people through a group of sensors, and responds with changing light and sound.
As a larger-than-life musical instrument, it is set to input visitors’ body movements, mixing them with a soundscape, a collection of the building’s surroundings, such as street fairs, traffic, city market and the Monastery of São Bento.
