Parque do Bixiga

Our proposal transforms a long-contested urban site into a public landscape centered on daylighting the Bixiga River, revealing a hidden ecological system, and reconnecting the city to the hydrological processes beneath it. The park links surrounding neighborhoods and extends the presence of the Teotro Oficina into a common ground, where meandering paths connect a sequence of spaces in a floodable wetland. Repurposed industrial materials such as concrete slabs and steel beams become sculptural urban furniture, framing a hisotry of ecological mismanagement and looking towards a hybrid and hopeful post-natural future

Location: São Paulo, Brazil

Year: 2026

Client: Public Competition

Service: Landscape architecture

Team: Soft Systems Studio, X-Topia (Marcella Del Signore, Tatiana Texeira, Marcello Chavez