GREAT PUBLIC SPACE DIFFERENT TYPES OF ELEVATED SPACES Another thing that made my thoughts spin was the use of public spaces. In a City that is being overtaken by people public spaces are important. Public spaces are ordered in a way that is very welcoming after walking around in the reclaimed parts of São Paulo. Someone takes care of them, they are clean. They give you a break.
When Lina Bo Bardi got the project one of the rules was that under no circumstances could the building block the site’s panoramic vistas of the lower-lying parts of the city. That is why she designed the house which is partly under ground and partly in the air. She also wanted the museum and site to belong not to politicians but to the commons, the people and the
As the common city belongs to everyone, I felt that the space below MASP and the parks belonged to no-one, but were ours to borrow. For PH WKH FLW\ ZLWK JUDIÀWL HYHU\ZKHUH PDGH PH XQFHUWDLQ DQG D OLWWOH ELW alien-like, I didn´t belong there as a tourist. Writing tags on things are as artists write their signature on painting, a way to say you made this, this is yours. But the public spaces I am used to, is more european, clean and don’t belong to anyone. I think that it is the people that make a great public space. You can help people by building a great space, but if it´s not overtaken by people using it its not a very good public space. But I also think that this differs with time, places and the way they are utilized change. You can’t leave out the user. Before going to Brazil I didn´t know much of its architecture and life. I thought it would probably look like many other bigger cities I visited and in many aspects it did. To be honest I didn’t read much about the buildings we visited before we visited them which actually was good. I could read them just as I saw them in that moment. And one thing that I haven’t experienced before was the elevated buildings we saw everywhere, I would call it a Brasilia trend. I´m not very well traveled in general, and in Sweden and Europe it is not so common to enter an building from below. I found it very interesting and a fun and effective way to use space. Especially in the cities where most of the environment comes from ground and above. So I will start with a comparison between some of the buildings we visited. MASP Weather: Sunny. Situation: We took cab to the museum and came there together with a horde of students. Some people were sitting on the wall or waiting in line. Homeless people by the walls.
Casa de Vidro
Museu de Arte Moderna