Embassy

Universidade de Sao Paulo, USP, Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Sao Paulo

Project idea

The project tries to incorporate the amount of restrictions imposed by the complex embassy’s program and reframe those limitations to create qualified spaces which, although safe and restricted, do not pass on the idea of confinement or isolation.
For this purpose, the main idea of the project was to use self-supporting walls - a basic and minimalist constructive element - to separate the circulations and the flux of people, keeping the privacy and the architectonic quality.

Project description

The project’s program is divided in three main buildings:
- the chancellery, which is attached to a technical area and to the visa building;
- the ambassador’s house, with its own representative area;
- a residential building for the staff of the embassy complex.
The embassy building is subdivided in other three well defined areas: the representative area, the assembly room and the offices, a more private one that is separated in two floors. All areas are accessible by a great and wide reception.
The visa building is accessed directly from the street and has its own external parking.
In the ambassador's house there’s a clear division of the representative area, a more public space, and the private part of his own home.
The residential building develops itself through four floors and some of the plans tries to adequate themselves to the possibility of union of apartments of 95, 55 and 25 square meters.

Technical information

The technical information are written in the drawings and diagrams.