architecture
architecture
Made with guidance of Juliana Braga, Moracy Amaral and Pedro Tuma.
[2025]
Here, transparency and connection are not merely concepts — they are the very matter that shapes space, designs paths, and molds encounters.
The building unfolds over six levels, where programs overlap fluidly — swimming pool, park, restaurant, hybrid rooms for various physical activities, a multisport court, and rooftop open-air courts. Each program is woven together by the logic of continuous circulation, the transparency of the façades, and the generosity of voids.
The metallic structure — light, strong, precise — spans large distances and supports the choreography of ramps that unfold through the building. These are not mere pathways but spaces of transition, meeting, pause, and observation. One moves, watches, crosses. To participate and to witness become simultaneous acts, dissolving the boundaries between athlete and spectator.
Light is a protagonist. It generously floods through façades, draws shadows, and reveals depths. Across all levels — except the covered multisport court — the relationship with the surroundings remains active and constant. The building opens itself to the city and, at the same time, allows the city to flow through it.
The rooftop becomes a sports belvedere and a space for gathering. Three open-air courts engage in dialogue with the sky, allowing sports to unfold under the sun, the clouds, and the passing time.
In contrast to this fluidity, a more opaque and introspective volume is placed at the rear. This houses the technical flows and support areas — emergency routes, elevators, administrative spaces, and storage. A silent piece that ensures the autonomy of the transparent, open spaces.
At ground level, the connection with the city intensifies. A public park extends from the street, dissolving boundaries and inviting passersby to become part of it. As a gesture of surprise and vertical connection, glass floor openings reveal the swimming pool below — water, visible from the street, reinforces the project's constant pursuit of visual and spatial connection.
Above all, this project is an architecture of crossings. A building that does not close in on itself but offers itself to the city as a path, as a landscape, as a space for encounters between sport, light, and life.