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‘A scar that cuts the city: solutions to the elevated highway Costa e Silva’ Design Proposal of Frentes Arquitetura, conceived taking into account the viaduct’s double-functionality. The project won the Prize Prestes Maia of Urbanism in 2006. The project was also shown in the 10th Venice Biennale and at the 7th International Architecture Bienal of São Paulo in 2007
This proposal, on the other hand, dogmatically separates the two ongoing uses. In the scheme, cars continue to flow on the existing asphalted tracks, partially closed with concrete panels and glass, feasible to reduce the noise damages. An extra level is added to the viaduct to be used as a public space, with greenery and urban furniture. Nevertheless, the choice to add more concrete and segregate uses does not acknowledge the viaduct as the polyvalent structure that it is nowadays.