{"headings":["Preserving Values","Unified Roof Design","Internal Visual Voids"],"paragraphs":["The 'Antigos Banhos de S.Paulo' is a modest example of neo-classical architecture defining the angle between Rua da Ribeira Nova and Travessa do Carvalho.The project starts, then, from the reading and understanding of the elements of greater value and architectonic intention of the preexisting set, as the original facade, in its expression and relationship with the close surroundings.","The strategy is to create a building where the only facade elements are the pre-existing ones in relation to the public road. The main intervention of the project resides, then, in the creation of only one roof that encloses program and defines space. This roof, of only one water, is based on an intention that aims to emphasise a relationship of complementarity between them.","An inclined plane allowing the light to reach the patio and the interior spaces of the main building, at the same time creating a preponderant visual link between the two.From this path, resulting from the void between the two buildings, is developed the exterior system of circulation of the building. The program is an unequivocal division between two types of space : public and private. On the ground floor, in direct relation with the pre-existing façade openings, is inserted the public space of the building, opening it to its surroundings.","This area, with a regular floor plan, is delimited by the program server spaces. On the upper floor, a suspended volume, archetypal in shape in two waters, confines the private program for the needs of OA's headquarters: three sequential rooms define a single continuous and longitudinal space. The remaining interior space is marked by interstitial voids that reside between these three entities: suspended volume, roof and pre-existing building."]}