Intervention in Vila Brasilândia, São Paulo
Boamistura 

Intervention in Vila Brasilândia, São Paulo

Boamistura 


Formally, we understand a favela as an agglomeration of low-quality housing, which follows a model of 'self-construction' and a process of spontaneous creation, and which is arranged as a network that grows horizontally and vertically according to needs. The intervention is located in Villa Brasilândia, one of the favela neighborhoods on the outskirts of São Paulo. Brasilândia develops longitudinally, adapting to the topography of the hills on which it is located. This longitudinal direction is also that of the main road infrastructures, to which are connected, in order to access the houses, other transversal passage cracks, which articulate the internal life of the community, and which are known as vecos in the flat stretches, and as vielas in the stairways. Both are winding alleys that link the upper and lower parts of the hills in a transit defined by an apparently disordered set of planes, textures and materials...[+]