The return to work is underway in São Paulo and, with it a move to a hybrid format. The trend is transforming corporate interiors, by reducing traditional work desks and focusing on collaborative spaces, but also corporate buildings.
With triple A features, noble cladding and finishes and in smaller scales, the Corporate Boutique towers are the promise for the future of office buildings. That is the main premise of BioCorporate Rebouças, signed by Perkins&Will’s studio in São Paulo, Brazil, and winner of World Design Awards 2021 in the Office Building Concept category.
Developed to promote a better relationship between people, workspace and the urban spaces, the 60m tall boutique corporate tower is smaller than the current enterprises under construction in São Paulo, but stands out by the façade, that brings together fair-faced concrete, wood and abundant greenery in a disruptive design, nothing like the usual glass towers all over the city.
“The concrete floor slabs in and wooded brise-soleils are a nod to the brutalist architecture that prevailed in São Paulo in the 60s and 70s.”
Douglas Tolaine, Design Principal at Perkins&Will and the project leader.Biophilic design was another important premise in this project, that counts with the massive presence of wood and greenery. Connecting the corporate environment with nature, the building will have gardens on its terraces with medium-sized plants and wooded brise-soleils to create a welcoming contemplative space.