PIRAJUSSARA STREAM: BREATHE TO REVIVER

Abstract

This article focuses the green infrastructure as a tool to improve the relationship between city and nature as well as to minimize the effects of urbanization, motivating the resilience of urban ecosystems. It is also analyzed the proposal to uncover urban channeled streams as a contribution to green corridor projects, aiming to provide better urban sustainability. It was analyzed more specifically the case of the Pirajussara Stream, which was channeled at most of its length and belongs to the Pinheiros River basin, in São Paulo City. The proposal of this settlement, like the results achieved in other countries, includes the Pinheiros River floodplain, near the green corridor Ibirapuera-Villa Lobos, which starts at Cidade Universitária (CUASO) – one of the cores of Ibirapuera-Villa Lobos corridor – in a way to increase collaboration of hydric resources in the green corridor project. The work is part of the discipline Environment Design of the postgraduate program of the School of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo. The inclusion of the uncovered stream to that corridor enlarges the use of green space by the population of surrounding neighborhoods and creates another area of urban resilience.