Housing and Ladeira da Memória

Vinicius Capella

The scenary of these reflections is located in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil, in an area currently now degraded, but packed full with memory and infrastructure, the Ladeira da Memoria. The Center plays an essential role as a reference and identity of residents, in addition to better infrastructure and accessibility of the city. The variety of activities and tolerance for diversity reinforce the unique character of the Centre in relation to the latest subcenters. The proposed proposal works with a diversity of housing units in which aims to meet this cosmopolitan center, which combines various cultures and ethnicities. The very peculiarity of deployment such as visual, materiality, sound conditions, flows, sunshine, accesses, the locus implies a space that highlights the city life. Thus, the intention is to generate a building that has its own identity from their specific urban condition, becoming a fragment of a larger spatial whole. Reflect on the role of contemporary dwelling and its intrinsic relationship to the urbs is one of the primary factors that influence this work. The technological development, especially the means of information exchange, bring a major change in the daily life of all and reflect the understanding of appropriation of space. A society with constant flow of information and culture, connected globally, palliative changes its mode of production and, consequently, their way of living. In consequence of these assumptions, this paper considers the city in a growing process of seeking connections and enhance the virtue of our time, a city more inclusive than exclusive.