São Paulo residence signed by Oscar Niemeyer
São Paulo 07/03
São Paulo residence signed by Oscar Niemeyer
To celebrate the re-emergence of in-person art fairs and events (after two years of pandemic and lockdown), ETEL, in collaboration with Ruy Teixeira, prepared a special essay with the pieces by Joaquim Tenreiro, Patricia Urquiola, Cristina Celestino and Daciano da Costa launched to the public at the 18th edition of SP-ARTE in 2022.
In the only residence in São Paulo that we have the record of signed by Oscar Niemeyer, the essay crowned the experienced transition from the private to the public. From the digital to the face-to-face, through that essay, the pieces transition from a private house to the Biennale public building also by Niemeyer.
In his presentation, Niemeyer explains his plan both in concept and detail, providing numbered sketches to illustrate how it will work. “This is a simple, deferential and welcoming house,” he says.
It was designed to be responsive to the family’s needs and lifestyle. In order to obtain a more fluid space than is possible in a two-story house, the residence was organized in two segments: A long horizontal wing, in which the private quarters and bedrooms are raised above a service floor and parking and a free-form pavilion of interlocking, open-plan living space that extends out from this wing to wrap around the garden and its pool.
