Architecture of infrastructure and urban mobility: an analysis of project, urban space and metropolis throughout São Paulo subway.

Author(s)

Luísa Augusta Gabriela Teixeira Gonçalves

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU/SBI)
• Defense date: 2020-06-09

Examining board members

Anália Maria Marinho de Carvalho Amorim; Renato Luiz Sobral Anelli; Pablo Emilio Robert Hereñú; Klara Anna Maria Kaiser Mori; Pedro Manuel Rivaben de Sales

• Advisor: Anália Maria Marinho de Carvalho Amorim

Abstract

This thesis presents an analysis of the São Paulo subway network that, from its stations, design and architecture, examines the ossibilities of integration by the mobility equipment and infrastructure to the urban space. It analyzes the metropolis of São Paulo in the process of the territory\'s formation, as well as in the context of the network\'s construction and the design culture that has produced it. The analysis of the projects encompasses in parallel the metropolitan scale, the mobility network, and the local scale of the street in the neighborhood. The selection of stations of five distinct lines allows us to confront the production of these equipment over the 50 years of the subway, crossing the dimension of urban planning, within the region of implantation, and the constructive one, within the processes and policies of construction, design, materiality and composition of spaces. The research highlights three groups of stations that present distinct deployments in relation to urban space and, therefore, raises particular questions regarding the design: elevated stations, surface stations and underground stations. In the first group, the subway stations stands as monuments in the city landscape while participating in their daily dynamics; in the second group, the surface stations that are interconnected to other mobility networks and constitute intermodal terminals of great impact in their surroundings; in the third group, the stations come from the underground to open public squares, and allow the study of the relations between stations, squares and centralities in São Paulo. The last chapter explores the future paths for mobility equipment design, by comparing the project of Grand Paris Express in Paris, France, and the current expansion plans of the São Paulo network. Starting from a system of flows and stations, and leaning on spaces of quotidian, public, collective, common and pedestrian use, the research deepens the theme of the infrastructure design and indicates some current relations between architecture, mobility and urban space. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 16/03250-6 - Urban objects: dialogues between architecture, infrastructure and metropolis at the subway stations of São Paulo
• Grantee: Luísa Augusta Gabriela Teixeira Gonçalves
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate