Elk jaar reikt de Vlaamse Vereniging voor Ruimte en Planning (VRP vzw) de Afstudeerprijs uit aan een (of meerdere) inspirerend(e) eindwerk(en). Voor de editie 2013 werden 22 eindwerken ingezonden. Vijf daarvan stroomden door naar een tweede ronde, waaronder dit eindwerk van Jonas Knapen Jeroen Stevens (KU Leuven) dat uiteindelijk de prijs in de wacht sleepte: Urbanism and stages of insurgence: Teatro Oficina, Bexiga, São Paolo. Dit is de presentatie van Jonas en Jeroen tijdens de tweede ronde.

1. Urbanism & stages of insurgence
Teatro Oficina / Bexiga / São Paulo
Jeroen Stevens & Jonas Knapen
Master of Urbanism & Strategic Planning
Promotor: André Loeckx

2. Urbanism & stages of insurgence
Teatro Oficina / Bexiga / São Paulo
Chapter I. Scenes of Porosity
by Jeroen Stevens
Chapter II. Scenes of contestation
by Jeroen Stevens
Bexiga and the Insurgence of the Margin (1574-1950) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. .
Teatro Oficina staging the city (1951-2013). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Chapter III. Design explorations
by Jonas Knapen
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Jeroen Stevens Jonas Knapen
Master of Urbanism Strategic Planning
Promotor: André Loeckx

3. Stage
[TO]
A Project
Stage
[BX]
A Neighbourhood
Stage
[SP]
A City

4. III
Scenes of Porosity
Bexiga and the Insurgence of the Margin (1574-1950)

5. Act. 01
Quilombo Saracura
I Scenes of Porosity
An African centre in the colonial margin (1574-1888)
Bexiga and the Insurgence of the Margin (1574-1950)
Rio Tietê
o
Ri
eí
at
du
an
m
Ta
Rio Tietê
“Good water”
Rio Pinheiros
SÃO PAULO
Rio Saracura
“Hiding Bird”
[BX]
Rio do
Bexiga
Rio Anhangabaú
“A spell of the evil one”

6. Quilombo Saracura
I Scenes of Porosity
An African centre in the colonial margin (1574-1888)
Bexiga and the Insurgence of the Margin (1574-1950)
Conv. de São Bento
Praça das Bandeiras
+
+
Hostel Bexiga
Sé Cathedral
Slaughterhause
Quilombo
+
Gallow
Sar
Campos do Bexiga
Igreja Carmo
Igreja dos Remedios
+
ntos
Ri
o
An
ha
ng
ab
aú
Cemetery of indigenous
and hanged
Road to Sa
Conv. de Carmo
Conv. de São Francisco
acu
ra
+
Rio
Act. 01

7. Planejamento do Bexiga
Act. 02
I Scenes of Porosity
Imposition and appropriation of an Italian quarter (1888-1905)
Bexiga and the Insurgence of the Margin (1574-1950)
Rio Tietê
Rio Tamanduateí
Lappa
(Italianos)
Estação
da Luz
Brás
(Italianos)
+
Slave Market
Rio Saracura
+
+ +
+
Quilombo
Gallows
Slaughterhouse
+
Cemetary
Rio do
Bexiga
Estação
da Brás
Cemetary of the indigenous and hanged
Rio Anhangabaú
BEXIGA
(Calabreses)

8. Peripheral centre
I Scenes of Porosity
Bexiga and the early modernism (1905-1930)
Sa
rac
ura
Bexiga and the Insurgence of the Margin (1574-1950)
aú
ab
ng
ha
Rio
An
Rua Barbosa
Rio
Act. 03
Av
e
n
id
a
Pa
uli
st
a

9. Act. 04
Juxtaposed insurgencies
Cultures of hybridity (1930-1950)
I Scenes of Porosity
Bexiga and the Insurgence of the Margin (1574-1950)

10. Act. 04
Juxtaposed insurgencies
Cultures of hybridity (1930-1950)
I Scenes of Porosity
Bexiga and the Insurgence of the Margin (1574-1950)

11. III
Scenes of contestation
Teatro Oficina staging the city (1951-2013)

12. Act. 05
Theatre of experimentation
Teatro oficina’s theatrical laboratory (1951-1964)
II Scenes of contestation
Teatro Oficina staging the city (1951-2013)

13. Act. 06
Theatre of resistance
The military coup and cultures of resistance (1964-1979)
II Scenes of contestation
Teatro Oficina staging the city (1951-2013)

14. Act. 06
Theatre of resistance
The military coup and cultures of resistance (1964-1979)
II Scenes of contestation
Teatro Oficina staging the city (1951-2013)

15. Act. 06
Theatre of resistance
The military coup and cultures of resistance (1964-1979)
II Scenes of contestation
Teatro Oficina staging the city (1951-2013)

16. Act. 07
Theatre of insurgent urbanity
Social movements and the right to the city (1979-1984)
II Scenes of contestation
Teatro Oficina staging the city (1951-2013)

17. Act. 09
From insurgence to coproduction
II Scenes of contestation
Questioning cultural practice as a basis for coproductive urbanism (2001-2013)
V
V
Teatro Oficina staging the city (1951-2013)
V
V
V
V
V
V
Oswald de Andrade
The former residence of modernist
writer (see page ? page 112)
Cortiço
One of the largest cortiços of Bexiga
(see page ? page 174)
V
TBC
The first important theatre of Bexiga,
the Teatro Brasileira de Commedia (see
page ?)
V
Rua Japurá
Where Oficina tried to ‘break through’ the fence of the small
gated compound that residents made
Casa Doña Yaya
One of the oldest buildings of Bexiga. Today
it’s the centro de Preservação Cultural of the
Universidade de São Paulo
TEATRO OFICINA
V
V

18. III
DESIGN EXPLORATIONS
A Landscape Scenography

19. Act. 10
FRAMING RESEARCH BY DESIGN
Site consolidation
III DESIGN EXPLORATIONS
A Landscape Scenography

20. Act. 13
A LANDSCAPE SCENOGRAPHY
Design strategies
III DESIGN EXPLORATIONS
A Landscape Scenography

21. Act. 13
A LANDSCAPE SCENOGRAPHY
Design strategies
ARTICULATING THE LANDSCAPE:
DESIGN PRINCIPLES
A new armature
Topographic differentiation
Continuous landscape
III DESIGN EXPLORATIONS
A Landscape Scenography

22. Act. 13
A LANDSCAPE SCENOGRAPHY
Design strategies
III DESIGN EXPLORATIONS
A Landscape Scenography
(RE-)COLLECTING QUALIFIED AND UNQUALIFIED
OPENS PACES
Requalifying corroded grids
(Re-)collecting platform
Altered topography:
Source: all images by author
inserting a public platform

23. Act. 13
A LANDSCAPE SCENOGRAPHY
III DESIGN EXPLORATIONS
A Landscape Scenography
Design strategies
A (re-)collecting platform
4
1
3
2
Tools
Crossing the highway
Maximizing headroom
Creating platforms
Differentiating passages
1
2
3
4
Vertical circulation

24. Act. 13
A LANDSCAPE SCENOGRAPHY
Design strategies
III DESIGN EXPLORATIONS
A Landscape Scenography
Altered Topography

25. Act. 13
A LANDSCAPE SCENOGRAPHY
Design strategies
III DESIGN EXPLORATIONS
A Landscape Scenography
A public platform

26. Act. 13
A LANDSCAPE SCENOGRAPHY
III DESIGN EXPLORATIONS
A Landscape Scenography
Design strategies
Articulating the landscape and Recollecting
open spaces
Articulating the landscape, collecting open
spaces and altering
topography
Requalifiying corroded
grids
Recollecting open
spaces
Recollecting open
spaces and altering
topography
Recollecting open
spaces and altering
topography

27. Act. 14
STRATEGIC INTERVENTIONS
Rua Conselheiro Ramalho Teatro Oficina
III DESIGN EXPLORATIONS
A Landscape Scenography
Teatro Oficina

28. Act. 14
STRATEGIC INTERVENTIONS
Rua Conselheiro Ramalho Teatro Oficina
Network of streets and passages
III DESIGN EXPLORATIONS
A Landscape Scenography

29. Act. 14
STRATEGIC INTERVENTIONS
Rua Conselheiro Ramalho Teatro Oficina
Squares and terraces
III DESIGN EXPLORATIONS
A Landscape Scenography

30. Act. 14
STRATEGIC INTERVENTIONS
III DESIGN EXPLORATIONS
A Landscape Scenography
Rua Conselheiro Ramalho Teatro Oficina
VERTICAL LANDMARKS AND HORIZONTAL PLANES
Theatre: Balcony
Market
Theatre: Stand
Technical facilities (container)
Theatre: Stadium
Circus

31. Act. 14
STRATEGIC INTERVENTIONS
Rua Conselheiro Ramalho Teatro Oficina
III DESIGN EXPLORATIONS
A Landscape Scenography
Teatro Oficina: Covered street

32. Act. 14
STRATEGIC INTERVENTIONS
Rua Conselheiro Ramalho Teatro Oficina
III DESIGN EXPLORATIONS
A Landscape Scenography

33. Act. 14
STRATEGIC INTERVENTIONS
Rua Conselheiro Ramalho Teatro Oficina
Iconic Landmark
III DESIGN EXPLORATIONS
A Landscape Scenography

34. Act. 14
STRATEGIC INTERVENTIONS
Rua Conselheiro Ramalho Teatro Oficina
III DESIGN EXPLORATIONS
A Landscape Scenography
Teatro Oficina: overview

35. Act. 15
EXPLORING MULTIPLE SOCIAL SCENES
Reflecting upon the landscape armature
EVERYDAY LIFE
III DESIGN EXPLORATIONS
A Landscape Scenography

36. Act. 15
EXPLORING MULTIPLE SOCIAL SCENES
Reflecting upon the landscape armature
TEATRO OFICINA PERFORMANCE
III DESIGN EXPLORATIONS
A Landscape Scenography

37. Act. 15
EXPLORING MULTIPLE SOCIAL SCENES
Reflecting upon the landscape armature
PAULISTA FESTIVAL
III DESIGN EXPLORATIONS
A Landscape Scenography

38. Exodus
The context and structure
of the research aim to
be open-ended. The
assemblage of acts
scenes, staged on and by
Teatro Oficina, Bexiga and
São Paulo, aim to open
up new perspectives in
ongoing and continuing
debate. This way, the
collection of acts and
scenes hopes to be an
open invition for further
additions , reflections
debate.

39. CidaDe
mOdOs DE fAzER
MoDos de usar
mOdos De colabOrAr
BieNaL de
ArquitEtura
dE SĀo PAulO