CIC do Imigrante

CIC do Imigrante
© Pedro Vanucchi

CIC DO IMIGRANTE

B Arquitetos, Escola da Cidade

AREA
1580 m²

YEAR
2016

PHOTOGRAPHS
Pedro Vanucchi

CLIMATIZATION
Hty Projetos De Engenharia Térmica

CONSTRUCTION
NIX Engenharia

LANDSCAPE
Soma Arquitetos

ESCOLA DA CIDADE
Ciro Pirondi, Anália Amorim, Felipe Noto, Marta Moreira

ESCOLA DA CIDADE TEAM
Denis Joelsons, Lara Ferreira, Adriana Matsufuji, Letícia Amado, Beatriz Hoyos, Murillo Lazzari, Pedro Nischimura.

STRUCTURE
Inner Engenharia

ELECTRIC AND HYDRAULIC INSTALLATIONS
Phe Engenharia De Projetos

LIGHTNING AND AMBIENTAL CONFORT
K2 ARQUITETURA

ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Felipe Noto

MANUFACTURERS
Arquitetura da Luz /, Gomez & Moraes Estruturas Metálicas, Insign, Marcenaria Lacerda, Montele, Stone, Tok&Stock

SIGNALING
Escola da Cidade, Ana Carolina Hidalgo Martini, Manuela Raitelli, Marina Brant, Rebeca Domiciano de Paula, Vitor Hugo Pissaia, Hermann Tascht, Luis Felipe Abbud

DESIGN TEAM
Escola da Cidade, Felipe Noto, Maira Rios, Paulo Emilio Ferreira

ELECTRIC
Phe Engenharia De Projetos

HYDRAULIC
Phe Engenharia De Projetos

ELECTRICAL
Phe Engenharia De Projetos

LIGHTING AND AMBIENTAL COMFORT
K2 ARQUITETURA

CATEGORY
Community, Refurbishment

LOCATION
Barra Funda, Brazil

CIC do Imigrante
© Pedro Vanucchi
CIC do Imigrante
© Pedro Vanucchi

Text description provided by architect.

The new Citizenship’s Centre for Immigrants in Barra Funda, São Paulo, came up from of a partnership between São Paulo’s State Department of Justice and Defense of Citizenship and the architecture school Escola da Cidade with the financial support of Inditex and the State Labor Prosecutor’s Office.

CIC do Imigrante
© Pedro Vanucchi
CIC do Imigrante
© Pedro Vanucchi

The project was developed as a pedagogical effort of academic extension, involving undergraduate and graduate students and professors.

The proposal faces the challenge of converting railway buildings into meeting spaces, welcoming people and providing basic instruments of citizenship to the immigrants that arrive in São Paulo.

CIC do Imigrante
© Pedro Vanucchi
CIC do Imigrante
© Pedro Vanucchi

In addition to the good metaphor (the train, the station, the arrival), the two buildings were immediately detected as the best structure to adapt:

CIC do Imigrante
© Pedro Vanucchi
CIC do Imigrante
© Pedro Vanucchi

continuous and big enough space, with the possibility of expansion over time within the same logic of intervention.

The main idea was to provide a nice welcome place with a large reception square along the street, accessible by some steps or ramps.

CIC do Imigrante
© Pedro Vanucchi
CIC do Imigrante
© Pedro Vanucchi

This open space is not only an arrival, but also the connection to the two occupied buildings and is able to define the using spaces of the complex, separating cars and pedestrians zones.

The square extends to the existing garden by boundaries of the railroad, and becomes a public space suitable for the frequent celebrations, assemblies and meetings of organized entities of immigrants.

The railroad operation building was converted into supporting spaces such as a coffee shop, children’s space and internet access.

CIC do Imigrante
© Pedro Vanucchi
CIC do Imigrante
© Pedro Vanucchi

All the roof has been rebuilt, and the entire system for doors, ventilation and lighting has been reviewed.

The linear shed building concentrates the service sector - to be operated by the Federal Police, the main support agent for documents and regularization of foreign people.

CIC do Imigrante
© Pedro Vanucchi
CIC do Imigrante
© Pedro Vanucchi

The longitudinal dimension of the old railway warehouse is reaffirmed by the organization of the service stations, aligned along almost 70 meter. The original elements of the roofs were restored and, without any ceiling, called to participate in the space in the new venue.

A third element is proposed as a link between the two existing blocks and as a solution of separation of users: a steel mezzanine partially defines in its upper level the private office spaces and organize the public service and support spaces at the lower level.

CIC do Imigrante
© Pedro Vanucchi


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