NSDC arises from our look at the city of São Paulo and the identification of the spatial segregation, materialised on the fences that separate parks, museums and public spaces from people.
The project proposes the transformation of public fences into urban furniture through the design process. There is an urgency in discussing the meaning of these physical separations, which symbolize and embody social segregation in our country, reflecting the culture of fear that has been created.
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NSDC arises from our look at the city of São Paulo and the identification of the spatial segregation, materialised on the fences that separate parks, museums and public spaces from people.
The project proposes the transformation of public fences into urban furniture through the design process. There is an urgency in discussing the meaning of these physical separations, which symbolize and embody social segregation in our country, reflecting the culture of fear that has been created.
The idea of the project was to return public spaces to people by transforming fences, literally and symbolically, into meeting places.
The furniture design arises from Deleuze's idea of the folding and continuity of action, where folding acts as an open process for other foldings and possibilities. Bending the bars, redesigning them while making reference to their past forms is a way of changing the city and its public spaces. It constitutes a simple movement that creates endless spatio-temporal possibilities.
The project is presented as a tool: bending, observing, using, shaping, reminding. We were not removing, but rather, transforming the fences of the city. The first stage of the project was already finished when we returned the fences to the Municipal Historical Archive of São Paulo resignified and transformed into urban furniture. Thus, we gave an open meeting place back to the city and its citizens, whereas before it was closed and separate. This is only the beginning of a process that we hope to replicate to transform many urban spaces into more humane places.
The project is online as a book where we present the design process and a video so that others can also transform their own fences.
Commissioned by: Museu da Cidade e Prefeitura de São Paulo
Format: Public furniture
Job description: design and construction follow-up
Project Team
Author: Atelier Marko Brajovic
Creative Director: arch. Marko Brajovic
Project Director: arch. Carmela Rocha
Assistant Architect: Ana Toljic