Reinach Mendonça Arquitetos Associados

Girassol Building

Girassol Building
© Tony Chen

GIRASSOL BUILDING

Reinach Mendonça Arquitetos Associados

AIR CONDITIONING
Logitec Projetos

COLLABORATORS
Guilherme Nakata, Raquel Jordão, Victor Gonçalves, Tony Chen, Mayara Ready, Tadeu Ferreira, Tais Vieira, Douglas Morilhão, Paula Leal, Camila Osele

INTERIOR DESIGN
SuperLimão Studio

LIGHTINING
Foco Luz & Desenho

CONCRETE STRUCTURE
Benedictis Engenharia

ELETRICAL HYDRALICAL ENGINEER
Zamaro Pessoa

AUTHORS
Henrique Reinach, Maurício Mendonça

METAL STRUCTURE
BE Metais

GENERAL CONTRACTOR
DeLucc

COORDINATORS ARCHITECTS
Manuel Tojal, Rodrigo Nakajima

MANUFACTURERS
Atlas Schindler, Atelier Leopardi Esperante, Be Metais, CenterMad

PHOTOGRAPHER
Tony Chen

AREA
993 m²

YEAR
2016

LOCATION
Pinheiros, Brazil

CATEGORY
Houses, Houses Interiors

Girassol Building
© Tony Chen
Girassol Building
© Tony Chen

Text description provided by architect.

The Girassol Building is a small commercial building located in a steep stretch street in the neighborhood of Vila Madalena located in São Paulo.

Girassol Building
© Tony Chen
Girassol Building
© Tony Chen

The project should provide versatile spaces that allow divide the space into small rooms or merged into a single large workplace.

Slabs are supported only by the pillars at the both sides of the lot exceeding its entire width.

Girassol Building
© Tony Chen
Girassol Building
© Tony Chen

The subsoil has the access of pedestrians separated from the vehicles and receives the visitors in a central nucleus of circulation.

Work spaces can be turned to the front and back of the building, improving ventilation and sunshine along the 3 floors.

Girassol Building
© Tony Chen
Girassol Building
© Tony Chen

The frame is all composed of floor / ceiling glass, leading users to a small balcony. In this, a second skin of shrimp doors in perforated plates protect the internal areas of the excess of sun and give privacy to the work areas.

Finally, the roof of the last floor, defined in thermo-acoustic metal tiles, provides a more generous footing, and allowed a zenithal illumination next to the core. This light enters on a pergola of glass-covered wood, beneath which a generous garden separates the rooms from the front to the back.

Girassol Building
© Tony Chen
Girassol Building
© Tony Chen

At the bottom of the basement, an uncovered garden and an artistic panel that fills the entire height of the background currency, complete the scene of this project.

Girassol Building
© Tony Chen
Girassol Building
© Tony Chen


Girassol Building
© Tony Chen
Girassol Building
© Tony Chen
Girassol Building
© Tony Chen
Girassol Building
© Tony Chen


Girassol Building
Section A
Girassol Building
Section B


Girassol Building
Basement floor plan
Girassol Building
Ground floor plan
Girassol Building
First floor plan
Girassol Building
Second floor plan
Girassol Building
Roof top

Reinach Mendonça Arquitetos Associados
T +55 11 30321110
Reinach Mendonça Arquitetos Associados
R. Santonina, 75 - Conj 32 - Vila Madalena, São Paulo - SP, 05432-050, Brazil