The figure of the brise-soleil – a traditional element of tropical architecture – is at the heart of this architectural project.

Located in a historic neighborhood in São Paulo, undergoing radical transformation, on a busy street facing north, the building aims to be the powerful and organic embodiment of the urban and natural "aggressions" of a subtropical city.

The project takes the stance of feeding off these "aggressions": the noise and sun exposure.

The sound level from the street traffic becomes a powerful atonal symphony, à la "Helicopter Quartet" by Stockhausen. It carves the building's façade: an organic and fluid brise-soleil membrane that, under the influence of sound waves, deforms, creating internal filters with different lighting and temperature effects.

A second filter on the internal glass wall equalizes these differences through a serigraphic opaque filter, an exact negative of the brise-soleil's deformation.

The membrane façade is "plugged" into a concrete frame – connecting the external and internal environments.

The rear façade – like a binary, peaceful musical partition – opens to a tropical beach.

The three floors are structured by a strong vertical element: a concrete staircase. Its geometry – in folded planes – connects and forms the spaces, from the parking garage to the solarium.