Sesc Limeira
The third valley
Placed in between valleys and surrounded by two streams, the land of the future unit of Sesc Limeira prepossess a declivity of 12 meters that revels an wide view of the city to those who walks by João Ciarocchi St. Implementing the project in a way that this landscape couldn´t be obstructed, but also being able to make good use of the natural profile of the land, so that the costly ground moving would be minimal, were two of the stand points for the initial development of the project.
The largest dimension programs – the gymnasium, the covered pools and the theatre – were distributed in two volumes gapped by a playful patio, a leisure and conviviality open space. The construction of this great area at the back of the lot released an extensive and slope at the front portion that made the transition between the project and the Luis Vargas Avenue. Both the courtyard, in a lower level, and the slope, in which emerges the barred pools, makes an allusion to the existing topography, as if a new valley was created inside the project land.
A third element, an industrial characteristic bridge building, flies over parallel to all the project extension and frames the landscape since the ludic patio. Supported by pillars, the metallic exoskeleton that structures the building allows that the 12mx164m plan to be completely unconfined, so that other space adjustments could be made if necessary.
Apart by an unfilled area at the first floor are located the dentistry and depot, while at the second floor can be found not only the management and administrative area, but also the flexible classrooms – for educative use of technology and cultural workshops.
Besides the two vertical circulation cores, that connects all of the building levels, a footbridge was forecasted to directly link the depot to the theatre volume, allowing those areas to share the same foyer and cafe.
The inside street
In the hiatus of the constructed elements emerges the most important connection: an internal street that goes along all the longitudinal axis of the project. Through all of its path the user, in permanent visual contact with the city vista, passes by mostly public and more intense use programs, strategically located under the bridge building. The route begins at the library and at the reception, and it grows when it comes to the common open area arrival. By the end of it can be found the food hall, where the preserved area can be beheld, until it opens into a large square, specially designed of the youth public.
Besides orchestrate the streams of people, since everything converges to it, the street is the main constructor of relations in the project in account of its 8 meters breadth that configures not only a walkway, but also a true space for interaction.
Incorporate the public dimension into the project means materializing into the proper space all of the transformative potential that a Sesc can represent. Still being configured as a private entity, not only the complexity of this necessity program, but also the high standard in which it is fulfilled, provides culture, leisure and health care to the society in every place that its units are inserted.
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