The establishment of a UNIFESP campus in the city of Osasco, close to the Quita\u00fana Metropolitan Train station, gives rise to a timely reflection on the potential relation between the university and the urban environment in which it is located. On one hand, it is a question of reversing an excessively isolationist culture, which determines the construction of excessively segregated spaces for study and knowledge. On the other, there is a real demand for the construction of physical boundaries capable of demarcating the spaces with controlled access to the campus - without abruptly breaking the possible interactions between the university world and the daily life of the neighborhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The project for the student housing building, located on the north-eastern edge of the campus, proposes opening up a space to mediate between these two worlds. A new public square, located on the border between Rua Newton Estilac Leal and the new housing building, offers a direct route for those coming from Quita\u00fana Station, opening up a visual perspective for the university's main access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Facing the neighborhood, the square offers facilities for public use and also hosts, at the points where it meets the building, a set of activities shared by the residents of the campus and the neighborhood. In this way, the collective programs of the Student Housing - such as the Community Library, Cinema-Theatre, and Arts Workshop - potentially serve as devices of sociability between the students and the surrounding population. Accommodating to the slope of the street, the programs unfold on successive levels, each linked to a space in the square. The establishment of a UNIFESP campus in the city of Osasco, close to the Quita\u00fana Metropolitan Train station, gives rise to a timely reflection on the potential relation between the university and the urban environment in which it is located. On one hand, it is a question of reversing an excessively isolationist culture, which determines the construction of excessively segregated spaces for study and knowledge. On the other, there is a real demand for the construction of physical boundaries capable of demarcating the spaces with controlled access to the campus - without abruptly breaking the possible interactions between the university world and the daily life of the neighborhood.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1362,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"class_list":["post-632","projeto","type-projeto","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-habitacional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hf.arq.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projeto\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hf.arq.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projeto"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hf.arq.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/projeto"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hf.arq.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/hf.arq.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projeto\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2882,"href":"https:\/\/hf.arq.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projeto\/632\/revisions\/2882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hf.arq.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hf.arq.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hf.arq.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
By extending the public sphere into the confines of the campus, the square acts as a vestibule, a space for unforeseen interactions. Together, the square and the building form an inhabitable wall, a border at the same time sturdy and permeable,<\/em> capable of offering the city a lively and interactive face of the university environment.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"