Anne Marie Sunmer
Paulista Avenue - Presented at the III International Architecture Bienal of São Paulo, 1997
Paulista Avenue is one of the best urban examples of the São Paulo Metroplis. In a city with so many differences, both social and urban, this Avenue is outstanding due to its diverse activities, possibility of access from all transport systems,* consequently functioning not only during the day but also at night.
Added to this, it is topographically a linear mountain crest which practically divides the city in two. What one has is a linear perspective of 2.200m from the highest point of the city.
The proposal of the walk way 4,50m. above the avenue’s side walk and with 2 tapis roulants, in both directions, makes for easier pedestrian flux in a densely populated area and functions as a rapid connection. At the same time, it potentializes the visual perception of a privileged geografical situation. The longitudinal walk way, like a duplicated topography, enables one to move as well as to see.
* SP city has 10 million inhabitants - the metropolis 17 million - an area of 1.500km2 and only 44km. of metro system.
Anne Marie Sumnner
Collaborators:
Architecture. Luciana Flores, André Aaltonen, Alexandre Serrano, Jackson Dualibi, Marcos Lopes Martins, Leo Soares,
Structure: Antonio Pinto Rodrigues
Photography: Marco César
Promov Clinic - Conceptual text
Project: 1993-94
Considering that the area in which the clinic was to be built is an extremely busy urban district with a tight building site 50 m deep but only 6m wide facing the street, the architectural question for the design was how to spatialize dinamically such an enclosed situation.
The project therefore structures itself through a series of basic movements of distention and compression that lead to a labyrinthine promenade in the clinics internal spaces.
Externally at the 2 extremes of the building are 2 blank cubes, as if floating, that explode the site vertically.
Collaborators:
Architecture: Luciana Flores Martins
Structure: Luiz Flavio Carvalho
Felix Beach House - Conceptual Text
Project: 1994-95
The situation is the Atlantic Rain Forest and the Atlantic Ocean.
The landscape is that of a mountain dropping in to the sea.
In a topography with accentuated declivity, high up, the house structures itself as a horizontal plane with the mountain in the background. There, due to the fact that the house is located against the topography’s contour lines, one is at a piazza seemingly in the air.
This plane, bends and becomes a descending vertical plane - a structural slab - that meeting the slope, reaches the ground. Seen at a distance: a blue blotch in the forest.
Collaborators:
Architecture: Luciana Flores Martins, André Aaltonen
Structure: Pedro Telecki
Installations: Mario Viviani
Photography: Nelson Kon
