Jacobsen Arquitetura

Pulse Office Building

Pulse Office Building
© Pedro Mascaro

PULSE OFFICE BUILDING

Jacobsen Arquitetura

ARCHITECTS
Jacobsen Arquitetura

INTERIORS
Jacobsen Arquitetura

CONSTRUCTION
Mozak Engenharia

DESIGN TEAM
Paulo Jacobsen, Bernardo Jacobsen, Edgar Murata, Marcelo Vessoni, Christian Rojas, Fernanda Maeda, Eduardo Aparício, Julia Navarro, Maria Caporale, Marina Budib, Marcela Guerreiro, Ricardo Castello Branco, Tatiana Kamogawa, Thammy Nozaki, Victor Gonçalves

LIGHTING
Peter Gasper

PHOTOGRAPHS
Pedro Mascaro

AREA
8250 M²

YEAR
2019

LOCATION
Jardim Botânico, Brazil

CATEGORY
Office Buildings

Pulse Office Building
© Pedro Mascaro
Pulse Office Building
© Pedro Mascaro

Text description provided by architect.

Located in Jardim Botânico, one of Rio de Janeiro's lushest neighborhoods, the PULSE building houses business offices, featuring unit/area flexibility, common meeting spaces, an auditorium and a rooftop coffee shop overlooking the Christ the Redeemer statue.

Pulse Office Building
© Pedro Mascaro
Pulse Office Building
© Pedro Mascaro

Commercial spaces facing the street and with underground parking are located on the ground floor. The aesthetic intention was to create an object foreign to the surroundings, as a counterpoint to neighboring buildings.

This was achieved in terms of shape, materials and colors, indicating a moment of requalification of the neighborhood, which already is presenting a sense of modernization in terms of infrastructure, local shops and real estate.

Hence, we therefore proposed a translucent, but not entirely transparent, construction. A silent, ethereal object.

Pulse Office Building
© Pedro Mascaro
Pulse Office Building
© Pedro Mascaro
Pulse Office Building
© Pedro Mascaro

One that stands out subtly at night, like a faint lantern, unlike the dimly lit residential buildings or the brightly lit office buildings.

For this purpose, we used special glass with opacity filters; they add protection from sunlight.

Pulse Office Building
© Pedro Mascaro
Pulse Office Building
© Pedro Mascaro

And we installed transparent and movable glass that accentuates the façade, proffering a certain dynamic aspect to the minimalism of the building that also allows interaction with the city and landscape.

In order to fragment the verticality of the façade and increase internal comfort with relation to the city’s heat and the frequent rainfall, we have used large matte black aluminum eaves.

They permit the entry of more light while controlling temperatures; consequently, they offer energy savings.

Pulse Office Building
© Pedro Mascaro
Pulse Office Building
© Pedro Mascaro
Pulse Office Building
© Pedro Mascaro

Unlike the lower floors, they make use of aluminum brises and a large transparent glass façade facing the street, thus creating independence from the tower's base.

Freijó wood panels on the walls and São Gabriel granite floor with a brushed finish make up the internal finishing palette, representing a proposal to use natural materials to humanize and add warmth to the common and circulation areas.

Jacobsen Arquitetura
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Jacobsen Arquitetura
Alameda Gabriel Monteiro da Silva, 1310 - Jardim Paulistano, São Paulo - SP, 01442-000, Brazil