Oscar Freire Triptyque
The architecture agency Triptyque was commissioned to design a complex in São Paulo with three shops, one restaurant, one bar and an art gallery. The shops should have access to the city, while the restaurant has to be housed in the upper floors.
The complex was designed as a binary metal structure: a “ground” level that receives the shops, and a “space” level called “the Observatory”, which houses the restaurant where the Franco-Brazilian restaurateurs of the Groupe Chez have created their new meeting place: Chez Oscar.
Located at a street where the buildings are next to each other, the observatory is not an additional stage, it is a building over a building, the city over the city. It opens a new dimension of growth spanning the shopping complex and overlooking the Oscar Freire neighborhood of São Paulo.
Text and images by Triptyque
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Part2. Trip to Casa de Vidro by Lina Bo Bardi in 1951, Sao Paulo, BR, photos TDeVoss 2013.