Located in a neighborhood in full economic revival, this tower of houses gives a touch of color and stands out for its characteristic image, differentiating itself from the everyday environment.
This unique tower proposed by the Spanish architect Fermín Vázquez and his studio b720 belongs to the new buildings in height that are currently being demanded in Sao Paulo.

The 123 homes, framed by color and structure, start from a basement that houses the common areas, such as the indoor pool and parking. The morphology of the tower responds to urban regulations and the interest to highlight, in a friendly way, the skyscrapers that surround it. It has also taken into account the orientation of the facades, which change their finishes depending on it; locating the houses on the north and south sides.
 

Description of project by b720 Fermín Vázquez

The apartment tower is located in Itaim Bibi de São Paulo, a neighborhood in deep transformation, which is moving from the traditional fabric of single-family homes in horizontal extension to a skyline of buildings in height, mainly homes that meet a growing residential demand for a prosperous upper middle class in the economic capital of the country.

The building has 123 apartments and consists of a tower of 25 heights on a base of common areas (squash, indoor pool, restaurant, social room, etc.) and parking above ground. The tower, enormously conditioned by the volumetric limitations imposed by the regulations and by the strict requirements of functional optimization, houses small houses with large individual terraces. The project seeks to maximize the slenderness of the piece and highlight, without gratuitous stridency, in the monotonous sea of ​​undifferentiated skyscrapers of São Paulo as a "singularity of good manners".

The floors are articulated in two parallel bays and a central communications center that includes two batteries of panoramic elevators. The main openings of the houses open to north and south, with deep balconies to avoid excessive solar radiation, while the east and west facades, the most exposed in the climate of São Paulo, are resolved with a predominance of opaque protected surface by a ventilated façade of large-format glazed ceramic pieces. On the sides of the balconies the ceramic coating becomes lattices that preserve the privacy of the houses and frame the views from inside the houses. The game and the combination of colors of the covering pieces aim at the chromatic individualization of each level as well as the search for a singularity that provides the differential qualitative value sought by the client who specifically wanted a colorful tower.

The building thus becomes a slender tower in which, however, it is possible to recognize the different housing units by the color and the framework that governs the construction. On the upper floors, the extension of the central core and larger apartments finish the building in a stepped way to merge with the urban profile and generate ample terraces for the enjoyment of the unbeatable views over the city.

 

 

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b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos
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Fermin Vazquez, Francesc de Fuentes, Sonia Cruz, Aline Foltran, Marc Pi, Albert Freixes, Gemma Ojea, David Sebastian, Miguel Yurrita.
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Structure.- Aluízio D’Ávila Engenharia de Projetos. Facilities.- Green Solutions/Steluti Engenharia/Studio Serradura. Promoter.- Huma Desenvolvimento Imobiliário /GR Properties /ERC. Construction.- Corporate Participações e Serviços Ltda. Construction management.- R. Min. Jesuíno Cardoso, 148 - Vila Nova Conceição, 04544-050, São Paulo, Brasil.
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Project.- 2012-2014. Construction.- 2014-2017
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Builded surface.- 11.533 sqm
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10.449.545,41$
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Fermín Vázquez Huarte-Mendicoa (Madrid, 1961) architect since 1988. He studied at ETSAM (Madrid) and ETSAB (Barcelona). He leads b720 Fermín Vázquez Architects, which he set up with Ana Bassat in 1997, with offices in Barcelona, Madrid, Sao Paulo and Porto Alegre.

b720 is an international studio. It works globally within its offices in Brasil and Spain, in projects located in a dozen of differents countries.

The work of the studio, which has been showed in several events and museums as the Biennal of Venice, the Cité of París and MoMA of NY, has been awarded nationally and internationally with several prizes, among there are two RIBA Awards, a World Architecture Festival award, four awards ASPRIMA-SIMA, the Emporis Skyscraper Award and the European Public Urban Space award.

Among his best-known projects there are the Agbar Tower -with Jean Nouvel Architectures-, Lérida's airport, the Plaza del Torico in Teruel, La Mola Conference Centre in Barcelona, the City of Justice of Barcelona and the building for de America Cup in Valencia -both with David Chipperfield Architects- and the Gran Casino Costa Brava in Lloret de Mar. Currently working, among other projects, on the new Mercat dels Encants in Barcelona, the new international airport of Cuzco in Perú, the regeneration of the Waterfront of Cais Mauá of Porto Alegre, a new neighbourhood for 70.000 residents in Brasilia and in several high buildings in Sao Paulo.

He usually combines the proffesional practise with teaching. He has been teacher at ETSAB, at l'École d'Architecture et Paysage de Burdeos, at Universidad Europea de Madrid and he has given courses and conferences large universities and institutions all over the world.

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Published on: March 21, 2018
Cite: "Color and skyscraper. Forma Itaim Tower by b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/color-and-skyscraper-forma-itaim-tower-b720-fermin-vazquez-arquitectos> ISSN 1139-6415
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