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Bixiga Urban Park and Watercourse Restoration, São Paulo
Two-stage national design competition to transform a contested central São Paulo site, in Brazil, into a renaturalised civic park structured around a reopened urban watercourse.
The Municipality of São Paulo is procuring preliminary architectural, urban and landscape proposals for a new 11,067 m² municipal park in the Bixiga (Bela Vista) district. The site sits beside the Teatro Oficina and within multiple heritage protection zones at municipal, state and federal level. The brief tests how landscape architecture can reconcile hydrological restoration, cultural memory and dense urban context. Competitors must reopen and renaturalise the buried Córrego do Bixiga as the structuring element of the park, increase soil permeability, and accommodate a defined civic programme including park administration, public facilities and multi-use cultural and recreational spaces. The project must operate in two phases due to a temporary metro works area, with the first phase functioning independently.
Location
Sector
civic-community, landscape-public-realm
Intervention
Urban Landscape Regeneration
Tender Portal
Tender Stage
Two-stage design competition
Deadline
03 Mar 26
Project Value/Scale
BRL 266k
Consultant Team
Architect (Responsible Technical Lead)
Hydraulic engineer with experience in watershed modelling
Hydraulic engineer with experience in watershed modelling
Submission Criteria
1st Place – R$ 130k, 2nd Place – R$ 60k, 3rd Place – R$ 40k
5 proposals will be selected to proceed to stage 2.
All five Stage 1 selected teams will receive R$18K
Stage 1 Deliverables (Qualification):
– Brazilian legal entity registered with CAU-BR
– Named Responsible Technical Architect with active CAU registration
– Articles of Association (including latest amendment)
– Proof that the Responsible Technical Lead is a shareholder/partner
– Consortium Documentation (if applicable)
– Declaration of No Conflict / No Legal Impediment
– Declaration of Professional Link to the Legal Entity
Design Deliverables:
Up to 4 x A1 boards (landscape format) including:
– Concept and technical summary
– 3D image showing relationship to context
– Site plan
– 2 floor plans
– 2 sections (longitudinal and transversal)
– 2 elevations
– Detail of reopening solution for Córrego do Bixiga
– 2 additional 3D images
Area schedule including:
– Covered built area
– Uncovered built area
– Landscape area
– Area of reopened stream
– Flood storage volume
– Permeability rate
– Conceptual and Technical Report – max. 1 A4 page (Calibri 11)
– Technical Team Sheet
– Representative digital image (JPG)
Stage 2 Deliverables:
– Revised 4 x A1 boards
– A4 horizontal presentation document (max. 40 pages)
– Expanded Conceptual & Technical Report (max. 4 A4 pages)
– Updated Technical Team Sheet
– Digital images
– Mandatory in-person technical presentation (30-minute presentation + 30-minute Q&A)
Evaluation:
— Judged on best technical quality and artistic content