Projetos Urbanos

Paranapiacaba, vila de engenheiros e funcionários da São Paulo Railway, foi ponto estratégico na Serra do Mar para o funcionamento e construção da estrada de ferro Santos-Jundiaí, que levava passageiros do porto para o capital Paulista e café do interior para o porto. Em 1982 o sistema funicular - puxando os vagões sobre planos inclinados, usando cabos de aço e máquinas a vapor instaladas nas patamares como Paranapiacaba - foi desativado. A oficina e o funicular se transformaram em museu. A estação original foi destruida num incêndio, menos o relogio, que foi recolocado numa nova torre. A nova vocação do lugar é o turismo e o lazer. Organiza-se eventos no local, como um festival de música.

Paranapiacaba, settlement of engineers and workers of São Paulo Railway, was a strategic point in the Serra do Mar for the funcioning and construction of the Santos-Jundiaí railway, which transported passengers from the port to the capital and coffee from the hinterland to the port. In 1982 the funicular sistem - pulling the wagons on ramps by steel cables and steam engines, installed on each landing, such as Paranapiacaba - was deactivated. The maintenance shed and the funicular were transformed into museum. The original station perished in a fire, the clock was saved and put on top of a new tower. The new destiny of the place is tourism and leisure. Events are organized on the premises, such as a music festival.

01. Funicular

02. Páteo ferroviário

03. Vagão e trilhos abandonados

04. Passarela

Info:
www.abpfsp.com.br/museu_ferroviario_paranapiacaba.htm
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranapiacaba
www.santoandre.sp.gov.br/fip

Competition entry by Merten Nefs for Southpoint, from Ruin to Rejuvenation (January 2006, project Jury selected for exhibition at AIA New York). The project foresaw re-use of the abandoned hospital and urban wasteland of Roosevelt Island, located in the East River between Manhattan and Queens. Two wings of the ruin - currently without floors and occupied by trees and other wild vegetation - are maintained as patios of the new Arts Center. A public square is proposed to connect the Arts Center with a future theatre and ferry port. The existing inclined waste deposit is upgraded to amfitheatre for outside events.

www.aiany.org/committees/emerging/competition/Southpoint/