This project consists of two interconnected interventions in Vinhedo (São Paulo, Brazil): an Art Gallery and the requalification of the Cristo Overlook. The gallery is set on a triangular, elevated plot across from the São Bento Monastery, structured by an orthogonal grid and a metallic system. A suspended longitudinal prism houses the main program, with recessed façades, cantilevered access, and an underground auditorium shaped by the site’s slope. Across the road, folded steel planes define contemplative spaces at the Overlook, extending the gallery’s material language and spatial logic.
Titled Sacred Profane, this project explores the sensitive interface between Art and Architecture through the lens of transcendence and spatial experience. Taking the São Bento Monastery—designed by Hans Broos in the 1970s—as its conceptual anchor, the work investigates how architectural subtlety can evoke spiritual presence in a contemporary, walled cityscape. The intervention triangulates three meaningful conditions: the Monastery, the vacant site, and the Cristo Overlook, creating a narrative of pilgrimage, reflection, and landscape immersion. Inspired by Brutalism and symbolic structures like Juaçaba’s chapel, the design invites reflection through space, landscape, and material, bridging sacred and profane realms.
