State Art Museum
Sao Paulo BR
Paulo Mendes da Rocha
Eduardo Colonelli
Weliton Ricoy Torres
1998
Type
Museum
Tags
cultural facilities, art spaces
Visitability
Allowed
Description
This museum was built at the end of the nineteenth century to house a school of arts and professions, but not long after, at the beginning of the next century it was adapted to receive an art collection, creating the state art museum. The current project’s greatest challengewas to adapt the museum to changes in its urban surroundings that had drastically transformed the region. For example, the main entrance could no longer be on Tiradentes Avenue, which had become an immense expressway. This change made it necessary to invert the circulation axis and to start off by giving a new internal spatial order to the exhibition galleries.(Text by Catherine Otondo and Jose Paulo Gouvêa . Itinerario de Arquitectura 06 , Fundación Arquitectura Contemporánea)