Isay Weinfeld

Mix 422 Building is located in Vila Madalena, an alternative and bohemian district in São Paulo’s West Side. For years, bars, restaurants, stores and art galleries have set up in the region, occupying and transforming properties amidst the low-rise and simple housing that still prevails, and drawing a young and modern public to the area.

Keeping in mind the context and audience mentioned above, we designed a mixed-use building to house office suites, a store, a café and a room for events over two perpendicular volumes, each featuring the seclusion or openness required.

Independent accesses, yet integrated, organize and distribute the flow of people around the building: the main entrance, on Aspicuelta Street, serves mostly office units, while a secondary entrance, two levels below on Fradique Coutinho Street, leads directly to the store.

Office units of different sizes, lay-outs, ceiling heights (sometimes single, others double) and balconies are distributed on the 6 floors above the ground level, along both wings of the building.

Located at the top of the building, four lofty units occupy 2 levels and the rooftop floor, benefitting yet from privileged views of the surroundings and private terraces.