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Our project addresses the issue of the bus station, usually seen as an enclosure where users board and disembark. We understand this equipment as not only an urban node, which converges and connects people, but also as an artifact that allows decision making. Thus, as a primary architectural gesture, we created a central module, which, illuminated naturally, humanizes the space: it, on a human scale, allows for the choice of routes and paths. Its glass façade reflects the surrounding environment, creating a mixture of movements, shapes, and colors, that enhance the experience inside.
Thus, this project is born from the dialogue with its context: its immediate physical surroundings and its vocation as an urban focus. Thus, we propose a flexible equipment, whose connections will be made by bus and public bicycle modals. Considering the dynamism of urban mobility and the growing demand for more efficient devices, we designed an adaptable structure, modular, that allows future expansions and spatial rearrangements. Based on these concepts, we suppressed unevenness, physical and visual barriers, enabling accessible and fast boarding and alighting, reducing mobility time and increasing the reliability of the public transportation system.
We understand the issue of sustainability as a fundamental condition for this project. In this perspective, we analyzed the operational life cycle of this equipment and prepared a study that aims to minimize the carbon footprint throughout its years of activity. As a method, we sum up the energy resources consumed in operational life, covering the stages of extraction, transformation, manufacture, use and final destination. To mitigate these effects, we adopted the following strategies: Installation of photovoltaic panels on the roof, reflective structural glazing on the facade, aeration of the roof and natural cross ventilation, using environmentally certified inputs that are abundant in the Amazon region.
Masterprize Winner 2022
Internacional Design Awards 2022 - Gold Winner
Our project addresses the issue of the bus station, usually seen as an enclosure where users board and disembark. We understand this equipment as not only an urban node, which converges and connects people, but also as an artifact that allows decision making. Thus, as a primary architectural gesture, we created a central module, which, illuminated naturally, humanizes the space: it, on a human scale, allows for the choice of routes and paths. Its glass façade reflects the surrounding environment, creating a mixture of movements, shapes, and colors, that enhance the experience inside.
Thus, this project is born from the dialogue with the context in which it is inserted: its immediate physical surroundings and its vocation as an urban focus. Thus, we propose a flexible equipment, whose connections will be made by public bus and bicycle modals. Considering the dynamism of urban mobility and the growing demand for more efficient devices, we designed an adaptable structure, modular, that allows future expansions. We removed physical and visual barriers, enabling accessible and fast boarding and alighting, reducing mobility time and increasing the reliability of the public transportation system.
We understand the issue of sustainability as a fundamental condition of this project: The glass fins that aerate the top of the structure provide environmental comfort and reference the rich heritage of the Amazon architecture.
"The Amazon bus station originated from the demand of the Integrated Center for Inclusion and Rehabilitation, which needed equipment that was accessible, with low carbon emissions in its implementation, sustainable and with low operating costs."
Architect active in Brazil, with design practices that cover different programs and scales.
Selected for the international exhibition of the São Paulo Architecture Biennial 2007 (The public and the private).
Selected for the international exhibition of the São Paulo Architecture Biennial 2009 (Urban Ecos)
-ÓPERA PRIMA AWARD 2005 - Brazilian Institute of Architects
-YOUNG ARCHITECTS AWARD 2007 - Brazilian Institute of Architects
-MASTERPRIZE WINNER 2022
-IDA - INTERNACIONAL DESIGN AWARDS 2022 - GOLD WINNER
