Cultural Complex Luz

Cultural Complex Luz will consolidate the largest cultural district in Latin America, comprising Sala São Paulo, Universidade Livre de Música, Pinacoteca do Estado, Estação Júlio Prestes, Parque da Luz, Museu da Língua Portuguesa and Museu de Arte Sacra. Together they will form a specific urban necklace of alternating green spaces and cultural buildings and establish a new cultural destination closely connected to the Campos Elíseos region, a central area in São Paulo. The project is also part of a larger operation to regenerate Luz- one of the most degraded areas in the city. By disseminating education, culture, arts and events the Cultural Complex Luz brings expectations of improvement to a zone whose fringes are still deteriorated. The program of Cultural Complex Luz aims to bring dance and music, students and professionals, performers and audience, production and rehearsal in one place. It will be a center where different generations of dance and music can connect through work, study, rehearsal and performance.
A main theatre with 1750 seats and a flexible experimental hall seating up to 400 will be dedicated primarily for dance but could host also opera, theater and music performances. The complex will also provide a home for the newly established São Paulo Companhia de Dança. The center will include also the 3000 student Music School Tom Jobim, Media Library, a Dance School and a 900 car parking. The concept envisions an open and lively cultural complex, a true public center, traversed by the different programs, allowing visibility among diverse activities and forging interaction between different generations and professions, guests and hosts. The building tissue consists of interwoven horizontal bands which, like city streets- create dynamic and diverse interactions between the performance spaces, lobby, schools, rehearsal rooms, offices and workshops.