Campo Novo reinvents an important metropolitan void in Campo Grande, transforming it into a new urban neighborhood where density, landscape, and mobility converge into a coherent spatial structure. The masterplan for eight plots stems from a careful reading of the site’s contrasting edges, from the vibrant stadium front to the more domestic fabric of Lumiar and the infrastructural intensity of Avenida Padre Cruz. Instead of imposing a single gesture, the plan distributes mass and program in a calibrated composition that expands permeability and returns a pedestrian scale to a territory long dominated by road systems.
The most intriguing feature of the project is the continuous podium that defines a new topographical plane, elevating public space above traffic and extending the existing park into the development, stitching together a constellation of squares, gardens, and shaded passages. This podium becomes the founding landscape of Campo Novo, shaping movement, framing views, and anchoring a hybrid urban fabric where living, working, and leisure coexist in balance.
The residential buildings are designed as sculpted volumes that reflect the ambition of a contemporary and human urban environment: the final façade proposal is based on an expressive dialogue between horizontal slabs and vertical ribs, generating a profile of rhythmic protrusions that soften the scale and bring depth to each elevation. These generous balconies function as environmental devices and extensions of domestic life, mediating light, shadow, and privacy, and creating an ever-changing play of shadows on the façades, each building adapts this language to its orientation and position within the masterplan, resulting in a unified family of forms, sensitive to the specific conditions of each plot.