Kaiserstraße is a brand new residential constructing presently underneath building in Blumenau, Brazil. The challenge is designed by Alencar Arquitetura and goals to harness connections between residents and the pure world.
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The challenge’s identify displays the German colonial influences of town of Blumenau. In truth, 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 town’s wealthy historical past whereas reflecting its path to innovation and modernity.
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On the bottom degree, the constructing is completely 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 prefer to reside in with out getting into the non-public areas. They expertise materiality of various textures, notably 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 town. Via 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 personal pool and luxurious gardens. This vegetation enhances biodiversity within the neighborhood and the realm general. Moreover, these terrace gardens create a microclimate on each degree that mitigates the city warmth island impact. This impact happens when infrastructure, equivalent to buildings or roads, replaces greenery and land cowl in city areas. The infrastructure tends to soak up and re-emit lots of warmth, which ends up in pockets of warmth known as “warmth islands.”
In addition to its residential areas, the constructing contains facilities for interplay and recreation. These embrace a health club, a toy library and a big non-public backyard for residents, which contains a playground and outside culinary house.
Due to its lovely, environmentally-friendly design, Kaiserstraße has turn out to be internationally acknowledged and has turn out to be 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 building is underway and can end in 2024. The constructing will improve the realm by contributing an revolutionary, sustainable house to the city cloth.
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