Kaiserstraße is a brand new residential constructing presently underneath development in Blumenau, Brazil. The challenge is designed by Alencar Arquitetura and goals to harness connections between residents and the pure world.

The challenge’s identify displays the German colonial influences of the town of Blumenau. Actually, the identify derives from the road on which it’s primarily based, which was previously generally known as Kaiserstraße, or “The Emperor’s Avenue.” The constructing’s design appreciates the town’s wealthy historical past whereas reflecting its path to innovation and modernity.

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On the bottom degree, the constructing is totally open. This enables for public entry the place pedestrians can work together. Guests get to expertise the constructing and get a really feel for what the constructing is wish to reside in with out coming into the personal areas. They expertise materiality of various textures, significantly the distinction of uncovered concrete and pure vegetation. This offers the challenge a contemporary really feel, while invoking a connection to nature. Furthermore, the constructing contains a stepped design with terraces that overlook the town. By means of the constructing’s kind, the designers ensured that every degree would obtain copious quantities of sunshine and pure airflow.

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Every house options balconies with a non-public pool and luxurious gardens. This vegetation enhances biodiversity within the neighborhood and the world general. Moreover, these terrace gardens create a microclimate on each degree that mitigates the city warmth island impact. This impact happens when infrastructure, reminiscent of buildings or roads, replaces greenery and land cowl in city areas. The infrastructure tends to soak up and re-emit loads of warmth, which leads to pockets of warmth known as “warmth islands.”

Moreover its residential areas, the constructing consists of facilities for interplay and recreation. These embrace a health club, a toy library and a big personal backyard for residents, which contains a playground and outside culinary area.

Due to its stunning, environmentally-friendly design, Kaiserstraße has develop into internationally acknowledged and has develop into the primary constructing within the metropolis of Blumenau to win an Architizer Award. The challenge acquired the award within the residential class for house buildings with lower than 10 flooring.

Kaiserstraße’s development is underway and can end in 2024. The constructing will improve the world by contributing an revolutionary, sustainable area to the city cloth.

+ Alencar Arquitetura

Photographs by way of Alencar Arquitetura