Edifício Copan

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Coordinates: 23 ° 32 ′ 47.8 "  S , 46 ° 38 ′ 39.8"  W.

Copan building

The Edifício Copan (Copan Building) is a 140 meter high residential building with 32 floors in the center of the Brazilian city ​​of São Paulo on Avenida Ipiranga 200. Construction of the building began in 1957 and was completed in 1966 after a few interruptions. The building is one of the largest in the country and has the largest living space (116,153 square meters) of all residential buildings worldwide.

The building

The complex was not named after the ancient Mayan city ​​of Copán in Honduras , the name is an acronym of its original developer, the Companhia Pan-Americana de Hotéis e Turismo (English: Pan-American Society for Hotels and Tourism).

The building was designed by Oscar Niemeyer's office in São Paulo. He himself was responsible for the famous sinusoidal floor plan, which, according to his own statement, was designed in accordance with the course of the street at that time. He later gave up the project due to discrepancies. Another architect involved was Carlos Lemos . In its final version, the building has 1160 residential units in various sizes between 26 and 350 square meters for the 5000 residents. The living space and number of apartments resulted in entries in the Guinness Book of Records .

The Copan consists of six self-contained blocks of flats that are adjoined but not connected. Due to the large number of residents, the complex was even given its own zip code. The current homeowner community employs over 100 people to manage the home. On the ground floor there are currently around 70 shops and other facilities including - since the 1990s - a church, a travel agency and four restaurants.

  • View of the skyline

  • Building view

  • Facade details

The Copan Building in Literature

The Copan Building inspired writers, filmmakers, photographers and other artists from around the world. A short story entitled Arca sem Noé - Histórias do Edifício Copan (Port .: Noah's Ark - Tales of the Copan Building ) by the Brazilian author Regina Rheda was published in Portuguese in 1994 and won the Jabuti Literature Prize of Brazil the following year. Arca sem Noé was also published in English as Stories from the Copan Building.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alois Gstöttner : No question of class. The Edifício Copan in São Paulo by Oscar Niemeyer. In: Der Standard , March 26, 2011.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Kunat: Life in Superlatives. In: Berliner Zeitung , March 29, 2008.
  3. ^ Regina Rheda: First World Third Class and Other Tales of the Global Mix. University of Texas Press, Austin 2005 (English).

bibliography

  • Marta Leão Furtado Gomes: Absorção da Arquitetura Moderna pelo Mercado Imobiliário do Brasil. Edifício Copan projeto original e alterações. Master's thesis , Instituto Superior Técnico , Lisbon 2004 ( available online ).
  • Roberto Carvalho de Mangalhães: L'edifício Copan a San Paolo. In: Critica d'arte. Vol. 55, 4, 1990, pp. 78-80.
  • Ruedi Leuthold: Life in 01066-900. In: GEO . 08/2009, pp. 42-54.
  • Regina Rheda: Stories from the Copan Building. In: Regina Rheda: First world third class and other tales of the global mix. University of Texas Press, Austin 2005.
  • Regina Rheda: Arca sem Noé. Histórias do Edifício Copan. Record, Rio de Janeiro 2010 (short stories in Portuguese).

Web links

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