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Duarte Murtinho Housing Complex is part of an urbanizing effort conducted by the Housing Department of São Bernardo City. A series of interventions was planned to improve the living conditions of the Silvina Audi neighborhood, an overpopulated mountainous area, with precarious conditions for pedestrian and vehicular circulation. As part of a project developed by Boldarini Arquitetos Associados, it was created a signage and wayfinding system to help the new residents not only to locate and move themselves around the new building complex but also to produce something that would add a sense of belonging to this group of people. It is important to point out that most of them had always lived in individual houses and never had the experience of sharing the space they are inhabiting. Simple architectural elements were explored, such as the formation of shadows on the building walls or the changing perspective of a stair. These visual interventions added a unique sense of identity to the whole building, which permited the residents to respond with curiosity and excitement to the proposed solution.

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