Vazio S/A mixes practice and research. For the studio, an integrated vision of the design disciplines – architecture, landscaping and urban planning – is a key strategy in times of challenges posed by the dynamic ecology and the very complexity of the cities. Whether in furniture design or residential projects, cultural facilities and commercial buildings, interdisciplinarity always prevails in the office.
We seek a purposeful and proactive attitude on architecture-related issues: a view where informality, the voids and the market act as something that should indicate us new projects and opportunities. In addition to the practice of a conventional office (houses, commercial buildings, urban design etc.) our work is associated with experimentation through architecture competitions, publications, partnerships with artists and social groups, and ephemeral urban interventions that investigate new relationships between contemporary culture and architecture.
Vazio S/A has received many national and international awards, including the influential Architectural Review Emerging Architecture Award; it has built projects in Brazil, Canada and England; and has participated in important exhibitions of art and architecture, such as the Venice Architecture Biennale and Sao Paulo International Art Biennale.
Among the last completed works of architecture is Montevideo 285 (an apartment building designed and developed by the studio), and H3O (a community center in favela da Serra, a big informal settlement in Belo Horizonte, state of Minas Gerais). Three other recent projects are the VDA residential building(2015), the Cerrado House (2015), and the temporary intervention Structural Archeology (2015).
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Avenida Cristóvão Colombo, 454, sala 201
30140150 Belo Horizonte
Brazil
+55-3132863869 www.vazio.com.br
Mônica Boscarino
