SUBdV and the Environmental Ornamention

 SUBdV – Prague Library

One of the highlights of the RAW event was to witness the refreshing work of Anne Save de Beaurecueil and Franklin Lee from SUBdV and to hear their lucid and engaged approach to architecture at the Sunday RAW Seminar. Subscribing to a sharp digital technical agenda their architectural projects are incredibly engaged to a series of parameters including ecological building and social ones.

 SUBdV – Paraisopolis

Projects like Paraisopolis illustrate it well. Working within the contraints of a favela the project proposal addresses infrastructural problems by extending pedestrian flows of the streets and the surrouding neighborhood. As explained by the architects “The steep slopes have been terraced to create open green space, in a series of Community Gardens, where the inhabitants of the current favela can grow fresh products for themselves, as well as to sell in the Farmer’s Market area, which can attract shoppers from the Morumbi neighborhood.” The project also includes an amphitheatre for cultural performances, basketball courts and shopping spaces. The design process uses generative algorithms and environmental simulations and the architects have worked with a team of consultants including BEA.

An interesting article about their work was recently published here (in italian): http://www.presstletter.com/articolo.asp?articolo=1547