Dois Trópicos Pinheiros, MNMA São Paulo Building Design, New Brazilian Architecture
Dois Trópicos, Pinheiros, São Paulo
17 Aug 2020
Dois Trópicos in Pinheiros, São Paulo
Architects: MNMA
Location: R. Mateus Grou, 589 РPinheiros, Ṣo Paulo РSP, 05415-050, Brazil

Photos by Andre Klotz
Dois Trópicos building
dois tropicos | wellness space : botanic store, yoga class and restaurant
The place is called Dois Trópicos _ name came from the tropics of cancer and capricorn
?… the front door continues to appeal to our sense arrival. Call it the ceremony of coming home.?

Akiko Busch

The concept of the project is a hybrid space, there is no determination or boundaries. A place that integrates gastronomy, the practice of yoga and botany, where people can feel in every way the importance of spending time to take care of themselves, slowly and with pleasure.
You can have lunch slowly, if you want to take a shower to freshen up, have a massage or practice a yoga class and enjoy or buy rare species of plants and flowers at the botanical store.

Every material has its own characteristics and limits for its definition. To work on the threshold of its possibilities – but not defying it – is indeed a fertile ground for advanced thinking and technique development.

Materiality builds the crossing planes that then become carriers for a tonal rhythm; the resulting immersion brings up new intimacy to the architectural space.

A commercial space that cre...