Vitacon Itaim Building

Vitacon Itaim Building

Architect make efforts to get amazing exterior perspective for his design, in modern architecture technology you can create all of your elevation ideas and put them in one building.That helps in making defernt  shapes for the building, it's acceptable for many activites done inside every single unit and you can consider it environmental design by using materials like wood. 

Architects: Studio MK27 – Marcio Kogan + Carolina Castroviejo
Location: State of São Paulo, Brazil
Project Team : Carlos Costa, Fabiana Stucchi, Fernanda Palmieri, Laura Guedes, Mariana Simas, Oswaldo Pessano

Vitacon Itaim Building

Studio Team : Beatriz Meyer, Diana Radomysler, Eduardo Chalabi, Eduardo Glycerio, Eduardo Gurian, Elisa Friedmann, Gabriel Kogan, Lair Reis, Luciana Antunes, Marcio Tanaka, Maria Cristina Motta, Mariana Ruzante, Oswaldo Pessano, Renata Furlanetto , Samanta Cafardo, Suzana Glogowski
Area: 3305.0 sqm
Year: 2014

The facade is made of reinforced concrete and exposed wood panels, designed to form their own environment and where residents can move according to your needs. In this way, users can optimize their own comfort depending on use and incidence of the sun.

 Vitacon Itaim Building plan

The exposed concrete refers to the brutalist-type buildings of São Paulo. The material done in the shape of wood has its own life, “a living organism” as Architect Lina Bo Bardi, the master of Brazilian modernism said. The texture of the slats – when lit by the sun – produces a surprising and poetic effect for the larger gables.

 Vitacon Itaim Building Section

the wood element help to control the amount of sun rays and heats instead of the common blocks, we can say it inspired from the Arabian muxarabis (old way in Arab communities). the building adopt easily with the different temperatures degree, the climate in Brazil like Arab countries.

It's considered on of The 70 best new buildings of the year on 2014