A Casa Museum

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A Casa Museum

Firm

Rocco, Vidal + arquitetos

Type

Cultural › Gallery Museum

SIZE

25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft

A Casa Museum in Sao Paulo, was located
in corner lot, with a height difference between streets equivalent
to a ordinary building floor, taking advantage of this
condition to ensure use flexibility to its owner. In the upper
floor, with access from Tamanás street, is the double height exhibition
space. Ground floor, connected to Pedroso de Moraes Avenue, is a
rental space for events - an important income source for
museum - this room is open to a private garden,
which ensures natural lighting and versatility to environment.
The two main floors are visually integrated. Physically, a retractable
stair works as a "door" between
these levels: lowered, allowing the passage from one level to another, lifted,
is parallel to ground floor ceiling, preventing the rising upstairs.

Dedicated to design and handicraft of Brazil, A Casa Museum
building was designed with analogies to these
issues, either by use of structural frames, either by choice
of materials with more rustic appearance. We take into
account also the environment which it belongs: the landscape
design extends the limits of intervention
in an adjacent open area, creating a new
"square" in the neighborhood and redeveloping the existing
one. An external staircase transposes the height difference between
the streets. This element was designed to solve
more than its original purpose, serving as bench for
resting or stand for artistic performances.
A design that starts with art in their DNA could not leave
it during first movements on works: the temporary siding is an
artistic intervention, designed by artist Guto Lacaz as
huge interactive panel. The work is also recorded
in timelapse, fertile material for contemporary art expressions. Who
knows what will be the next challenges this space will bring?http://www.roccovidal.com.br/Projeto/?pId=167&pArea=1