Hypothesis of green infrastructure for creation of the linear park Brás-Lapa

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the current railroad connection between the areas of Parque da Luz and Parque da Água Branca, as well as to discuss the proposal of intervention there, close to Parque da Água Branca, which as stated in the Master Plan of São Paulo, targets the improvement of roads, proposing to bury the whole railway and to build on it an avenue for cars with medians and sides, to be considered “linear parks” with bike lanes. The main target of this study is to analyze and clarify the project concepts of a linear park, focusing the environmental design, the project of a sustainable park and sustainable urban mobility, as well as to identify the problems currently found at that site by visits of students of the subject Sustainable Project of post-graduation program at Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at University of São Paulo in August 2012. The study also aims to focus the hypothesis of green infrastructure to develop the Linear Park Brás - Lapa, disregarding the guidelines that are not consistent with the concepts discussed in the context of sustainable project, especially those raised in research by reporting the Operation Urban Água Branca and Lapa - Brás. The approach is to recover the site, proposing changes in the intervention project, by the proposition of feasible hypothesis as methodologies to resolve implementation guidance of a linear park in the area of the train rails targeting the concepts covered in class, i.e., the linear park project with sustainable urban mobility aiming the environmental design between Lapa and Brás, and interfering with the railroad, considering that the best proposal is that which the rails are to be moved, sometimes being underground, sometimes in level.