Arquitetos Associados

Pampulha Square

Pampulha Square
© Eduardo Eckenfels

PAMPULHA SQUARE

Arquitetos Associados

AREA
19000.0 m2

YEAR
2008

LOCATION
Brazil

CATEGORY
Public Space

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The Square was built at the last large public space in the surroundings of Pampulha, close to St. Francis Church, one of Niemeyer buildings around the lake.

Pampulha Square
© Eduardo Eckenfels
Pampulha Square
© Eduardo Eckenfels

The project redesign topography creating slightly sloping green surfaces that improve natural drainage, define permanence areas – grades, benches, platforms – and cover facilities – public toilets and bar – improving the open public character of the square.

Destined to large scale events, the design defined a large dry esplanade closer to the lake, while increasing the green presence in the other direction, defining otherwise a more bucolic intimate scale for the neighborhood use. Vertical totems for lighting liberate the esplanade.

Pampulha Square
© Eduardo Eckenfels
Pampulha Square
© Eduardo Eckenfels

The huge area associated to a low budget oriented a strict choice of low cost and resistant materials: the traditional brick in pavements and vertical elements; concrete for totems; crushed stone and grass for the permeable surfaces.

Pampulha Square
© Eduardo Eckenfels
Pampulha Square
© Eduardo Eckenfels


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Arquitetos Associados
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