In Lina Bo Bardi’s design, the street on which trucks drove into the old drum factory became exclusively pedestrian territory as the central axis of the leisure center. The rainwater piping that lined both sides of the road was clad with pebbles—industrially produced to avoid environmental degradation—to fashion rivulets and bridges. These small details lend the complex its poetic character as a citadel.
From bottom to top: Marco Antonio, Leonardo Finotti, Leonardo Finotti
François Hennebique (1842–1921), engineer and builder who lived in France and was a pioneer of reinforced concrete, developed a new method for organizing structures and combining their horizontal and vertical components—beams and columns—into a single monolithic structural piece. Many industrial buildings around the world use the technology he developed and patented. The structures used at Sesc Pompeia are possibly the only ones in Brazil to have used this method.