Uploaded June 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
The residents in this São Paulo slum lived with rats and in constant fear of floods. When Vigliecca & Associados designed Parque Novo Santo Amaro V, residents were relocated and a vast new housing complex was built with water features and football pitches, playgrounds and public spaces. The tenants lives were transformed by their new homes, which are far superior to the shacks that surround them. The communal spaces were supposed to be for everyone, but now the newly formed residents' association wants to close the gates. The architect reacts...
Parque Novo Santo Amaro V is a housing complex and linear park built in 2012 to provide new residential units as well as public facilities for a run-down quarter of São Paulo. This new piece of urban infrastructure aimed to solve a range of social and civic problems in the neighbourhood.
Three years after the project's inauguration, the AR commissioned filmmaker Antonio Brasiliano and journalist Ursula Troncoso to visit the housing complex to document its inhabitation and assess its success in triggering transformation both for its residents and the wider neighbourhood.
The residents in this São Paulo slum lived with rats and in constant fear of floods. When Vigliecca & Associados designed Parque Novo Santo Amaro V, residents were relocated and a vast new housing complex was built with water features and football pitches, playgrounds and public spaces. The tenants lives were transformed by their new homes, which are far superior to the shacks that surround them. The communal spaces were supposed to be for everyone, but now the newly formed residents' association wants to close the gates. The architect reacts...
Parque Novo Santo Amaro V is a housing complex and linear park built in 2012 to provide new residential units as well as public facilities for a run-down quarter of São Paulo. This new piece of urban infrastructure aimed to solve a range of social and civic problems in the neighbourhood.
Three years after the project's inauguration, the AR commissioned filmmaker Antonio Brasiliano and journalist Ursula Troncoso to visit the housing complex to document its inhabitation and assess its success in triggering transformation both for its residents and the wider neighbourhood.
