Triptyque Architecture

Harmonia 57

Harmonia 57
© Nelson Kon

HARMONIA 57

Triptyque

ARCHITECTS
Triptyque

HYDRAULIC ENGINEER
Guilherme Castagna

PROJECT CHIEF
Tiago Guimarães

CONTRACTOR
Bassani Arquitetos Construtores

STRUCTURE
Rika, Rioske Kanno

PHOTGRAPHS
Nelson Kon

ARCHITECTS IN CHARGE
Greg Bousquet, Carolina Bueno, Guillaume Sibaud e Olivier Raffaelli

CONSTRUCTED AREA
1,060 sqm

AREA
500.0 m2

YEAR
2008

LOCATION
Sao Paulo - São Paulo, Brazil

CATEGORY
Commercial Architecture

Text description provided by architect.

The project in Harmonia Street is located in a neighborhood in the west side of São Paulo, where artistic life and creativity penetrates easily, where galleries and walls are mixed up, functioning as a stage for new expression forms.

Harmonia 57
© Nelson Kon
Harmonia 57
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Harmonia 57
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The alley in front of the building is an example - its graffiti present a concept of experimentation that flows out from the street into the construction.

Like a living body, the building breathes, sweats and modifies itself, transcending its inertia. The walls are thick and covered externally by a vegetal layer that works like the skin of the structure.

This dense wall is made of an organic concrete that has pores, where several plant species grow, giving the facades a unique look.

Harmonia 57
© Nelson Kon
Harmonia 57
© Nelson Kon
Harmonia 57
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In this great machine, where the rain and soil waters are drained, treated and reused, a complex ecosystem is formed within the local.

As in Deleuze's theory, this ecosystem is a multi functional universe made of several interconnected machines. It's a zone of multiplicity, where meanings and actions float between the unsaid, resulting in dynamic entities.

Harmonia 57
© Nelson Kon
Harmonia 57
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Its insides are exposed in the facades while the interior spaces are well finished with clear and luminous surfaces, as if the construction was inside out.

The pipelines that serve the whole building - as well as the pumps and the water treatment system - are showing in the exterior walls, embracing them like veins and arteries of a body.

Harmonia 57
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Harmonia 57
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Harmonia 57
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The building is like a neutral, grey base, sculpted and deformed. The aesthetic is a result of the process - the structure is rough and has a primitive elegance - a reflex of the actual concern with environmental issues and the investigation of ways of intervention.

Its volume is quite simple, but also remarkable: two grand vegetal blocks are connected by a metallic footbridge, cut by concrete and glass windows and terraces.

Between the blocks a internal plaza opens like a clearing and acts like a place of encountering.

Harmonia 57
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Harmonia 57
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Harmonia 57
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The terraces are spread in each floor, creating a visual game between volumes, lighting and transparency in the internal spaces. The frontal block is completely suspense, levitating over pilotis, while the back block is solid, complemented by a birdhouse-like volume on top of it.

Once again as a living body, its windows open up to the exterior with its concrete lips and terraces cut out pieces of the main volumes in different points, like eyes looking at the city from several points of view, while a giant concrete mouth invites automobiles to be swallowed to the inside of the building. The result of this ensemble is an exceptional edifice that presents a new perspective on "live architecture".

Harmonia 57
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Harmonia 57
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Harmonia 57
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Harmonia 57
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Harmonia 57
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Harmonia 57
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Harmonia 57
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Harmonia 57
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Harmonia 57
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Harmonia 57
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Isométrica Tubos
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Diagrama


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Diagrama Fachadas


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Vista 1
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Corte


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Vista 2
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Detalhe Brises


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Detalhe
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Detalhe Irrigação
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Detalhe Brise


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mplantação
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Plantas

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