IBIRAPUERA PARK

SÃO PAULO- BRAZIL
THE BIGGEST GREEN SPACE IN CENTRAL SÃO PAULO
MAKES A FINE ESCAPE FROM THE CITY'S SEEMINGLY INFINITE STRETCHES OF
CONCRETE. IBIRAPUERA WAS DESIGNED TO ISOLATE USERS FROM THE CITY .

LOCATION
• IT COMPRISES OF 158 HECTARES(390 ACRES)(296 FOOTBALL FIELDS)
• COMPARABLE TO CENTRAL PARK IN NEW YORK
• ONE OF THE CITY’S BIGGEST URBAN GREEN AREA

AREA
• AT THE START OF THE 20TH CENTURY, WITH
SÃO PAULO BOOMING AND EXPANDING AT A
DRAMATIC PACE, THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT
EXPRESSED THEIR INTEREST IN BUILDING AN
URBAN PARK IN THE CITY, SOMETHING TO
RIVAL NEW YORK’S CENTRAL PARK OR
LONDON’S HYDE PARK.
• THE ONLY VACANT SPACE SUITABLE FOR A
PROJECT OF THIS SIZE WAS THE FLOODPLAIN
OF IBIRAPUERA TO THE SOUTH OF THE CITY
CENTER, WHICH WAS AN INDIGENOUS
VILLAGE IN THE 19TH CENTURY (THE
WORD IBIRAPUERA MEANS “DECAYED TREE” IN
THE TUPI-GUARANÍ LANGUAGE).
• THE PROJECT FOR IBIRAPUERA PARK WAS
EVENTUALLY SHELVED IN THE 1920S, DUE TO
THE LAND BEING TOO MARSHY TO BUILD
UPON.
• THE MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT INSTEAD
PLANTED HUNDREDS OF EUCALYPTUS TREES
ON THE FLOODPLAIN, WITH A VIEW TO
DRAINING THE SOIL FOR A FUTURE URBAN
PARK.
• DECADES LATER, THE IBIRAPUERA PARK
PROJECT CAME BACK ON THE CITY’S AGENDA.
• WITH SÃO PAULO’S 400TH ANNIVERSARY IN
SIGHT, A GROUP OF MODERNIST DESIGNERS
WAS FORMED IN 1951 TO FINALLY MAKE THIS
OLD DREAM A REALITY.
• THE WORLD-FAMOUS OSCAR NIEMEYER WAS
PUT IN CHARGE OF THE PARK’S
ARCHITECTURE PROJECT, WHILE THE
EQUALLY RENOWNED DESIGNER ROBERTO
BURLE MARX TOOK CARE OF THE PARK’S
HISTORY
 INCLUDES A NUMBER OF EXOTIC TREE
SPECIES AND TWO VAST ARTIFICIAL LAKES
 TODAY, THE PARK IS HOME TO AROUND 120
SPECIES OF BIRDS, INCLUDING UNCOMMON
VARIETIES SUCH AS CARDINALS, MASKED
WATER TYRANTS, AND THE RUFOUS-BELLIED
THRUSH
 THE PARK HAS TWO TREE STRATA WHICH HAVE
SPECIFIC ENVIRONMENTAL FUNCTIONS: AN OUTER
BARRIER COMPOSED ONLY BY LARGE TREES AND A
HIGHLY DIVERSE INNER STRATUM, WITH TREES
GROUPED INTO WOODS WITH DIFFERENT AMBIENCES
 THE NUMBER OF ALL INDIVIDUALS AND SPECIES IS
KNOWN, BUT NO STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO GUIDE
THE PARK’S TREE MANAGEMENT.
 THIS STUDY ANALYZED THE SPECIES DIVERSITY
(FREQUENCY AND DIVERSITY INDICES), IN ORDER TO
SUBSIDIZES MANAGEMENT PRACTICES TO MAINTAIN
IBIRAPUERA’S STRUCTURE AND LANDSCAPE
INTEGRITY.

VEGETATION
 1)  10)PLAYGROUND
Ibirapuera Park Footb
ridge
MADE OF CAST IRON, THE BRIDGE
CROSSES OVER THE LAKE IBIRAPUERA,
CONNECTING TWO SIDES OF THE PARK.
FROM THERE OPENS A GREAT VIEW OF
THE FARAWAY SKYSCRAPERS OF SAO
PAULO, 2)  ONE OF THE FIRST PLACES
Japanese Garden (Pav
ilhao Japones)
A SYMBOL OF FRIENDSHIP
BETWEEN BRAZIL AND JAPAN,
ENCOMPASSING AN ABUNDANCE OF
PLANTS (INCLUDING BONSAI
TREES), PONDS AND SMALL LAKES,
FILLED WITH GOLDFISH AS WELL AS
SHOIN-STYLE BUILDINGS AND
OFFERING A GLIMPSE INTO THE
3) Ibirapuera
JAPANESE Planetarium
CULTURE.  4) Museu Afro Brasil
 THE OUTLINE OF THE
PLANETARIUM RESEMBLES AN
ALIEN SPACESHIP, WITH A METAL
DOME OF 40FT IN DIAMETER,
CIRCLED BY A YELLOW WOODEN
DISK.
5)  7) Ibirapuera Auditorium
Monumento as Bandei
ras
MUSEU AFRO-BRASIL STANDING 12 METERS HIGH, 50
IS A PERFECT PLACE METERS LONG AND 15 METERS
TO ENRICH ONE'S WIDE IS ONE OF THE LARGEST
KNOWLEDGE OF THE SCULPTURES IN THE WORLD
AFRICAN-BRAZILIAN THE MONUMENT WAS
COMMUNITY AND PRESENTED TO THE CITY OF
HISTORY SAO PAULO
PARK CONSISTS
THE PARK IS VERY FLEXIBLE AND
HAS SEPERATE RUNNING TRACK
9) Modern Art Museum
DEDICATED TO MODERN
BRAZILIAN ART, FEATURING
MORE THAN 8,000 ARTWORKS,
INCLUDING SCULPTURES,
PAINTINGS, AND MANY OTHERS.
8) 
OCA -Lucas Nogueira
Garcez Pavilion
OCA IS AN EXHIBITION HALL
INSIDE IBIRAPUERA PARK IN
SAO PAULO. 
6) Obelisk of Sao Paulo
THE AUDITORIUM CAN
EASILY TRANSFORM INTO A
IBIRAPUERA PARK IS A CINEMA THEATER, HOSTING
HOST TO MANY HISTORIC MOVIE FESTIVALS AND
AND CULTURAL PREMIERES. WHITE AND RED
MONUMENTS. MADE OF COLORS ARE PREDOMINANT
PURE TRAVERTINO IN ITS EXTERIOR. 
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