Patriarca Square Renovation
Sao Paulo BR
Paulo Mendes da Rocha
Eduardo Colonelli
2002
Type
Public Space
Tags
public spaces, renovations
Visitability
Allowed
Description
The project entails an architectonic intervention on a square in downtown São Paulo that was being used as a bus terminal. The large metal canopy has the purpose of covering a foot entrance to an underground gallery. More than just a landmark for a plaza, this metal object has a relationship with the other side of the valley over which it rests. For this reason, it is worth seeing it from the other side of the viaduct.(Text by Catherine Otondo and Jose Paulo Gouvêa . Itinerario de Arquitectura 06 , Fundación Arquitectura Contemporánea)