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Built in 1998, on a strategic corner of Afonso Pena Avenue (one of the main urban routes in Belo Horizonte). The Castelo 2770 building holds, in a 5000m2 gross area: commercial offices, shops and the Castelo company headquarters. In spite of respecting the company's expectations for a rational architecture, my proposal plays with a slightly curved volumetric shape, an inciting dialogue with the triangular plot and with the corner itself. It also fixes two kinds of interfaces with the urban surroundings, adapting itself to the view of the mountains and to the solar heating trajectory (SE façade segments in coated glass panels and controlled openings on the NW mass façades). The solution for a sidewalk in two levels innovated and found flexibility on the current urban legislation. The proposed alternative optimises the flow of pedestrians, once verified an aggressive hump on that specific corner, caused by lack of accordance of the avenue with the street grades. The structural system is solved with conventional reinforced concrete slabs and pillars.







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