+ A HOUSING LINE [Graduate Studio]

SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL / SPRING 2018

A Housing Line along São Paulo’s Tamanduateí Industrial Crescent

Sponsor
Texas Tech University College of Architecture

Research Assistant
Thaís Marcussi

São Paulo Institutional Partner
Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie

São Paulo Collaborators, Visiting Lecturers, and Critics
Eduardo Gurian, Shundi Iwamizu, Jose Paulo Gouveia, Marcos Boldarini, Cristiane Muniz, Elisabete França, Caterine Otondo, Maria Teresa Diniz

TRAVELING GRADUATE STUDIO | URBAN INFORMALITY | POSTINDUSTRIAL URBAN CORRIDORS | INCREMENTAL HOUSING | PEER-TO-PEER LEARNING

The Tamanduateí Crescent is a 7-kilometer industrial corridor on São Paulo’s east side. It is a place that Brazilian architect Alejandre Delijacov says exemplifies ‘urban erraticism’ since it has a river near which the city was settled in 1532, rail that expanded São Paulo’s industrial activities from the 1800s onward, and multi modal transit systems of international renown—yet fails to provide adequate housing or manage persistent flooding in support of the poorest populations who live there.

In response, this graduate studio developed a series of housing scenarios for coupled sites – one favela, one vacant lot – along the Tamanduateí. Housing interwoven into uniquely shaped sites supports water management where needed, while offering incremental housing types that help to transition existing building cultures to new project sites.

Embedded within the Tamanduateí’s infrastructure – ecology interactions are a range of urban inequities, conditions that the students considered through travel to São Paulo, where they attended lectures by local experts in urban informality, visited local architects and planners, toured social housing projects, and collaborated with peers from Mackenzie Presbyterian University on a design proposal for a small favela along the Tamanduateí.

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