Restoration and Intervention Plan for Ibirapuera Park
Plantar Ideias

SHORTLIST URBAN DESIGN | Public & Urban Design

Project Description

Developed by Estúdio Plantar Ideias in 2020, the Ibirapuera Park Intervention Plan embraces a restorative and strategic approach — reprogramming rather than rebuilding. Based on a point cloud survey and fully developed in BIM, the plan focuses on preserving heritage, improving urban infrastructure, mobility, maintaining architecture with minimal additions, and restoring over 30,000 m² of landscape. It generated 200 boards, five thematic reports, and full technical documentation.

Project Concept

​In dialogue with the Master Plan and preservation bodies, the plan views the park as a living organism: historic, urban, and natural. It proposes actions that restore, regenerate, and reactivate, always with lightness and precision. An architecture that acts more with care than with concrete.

Jan Gehl and Jane Jacobs resonate here: public spaces gain life through use, human scale, and​ permanence. Renovation is an act of urban kindness — a choice for continuity, not replacement.
General Guidelines: Establish a clear technical protocol to conserve, maintain, and activate: listed buildings,​ operational structures, furniture, and landscape. Specific interventions arise from a vision of the whole —​ without improvisation, with purpose.