Casacor São Paulo 2026

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_project: Casacor São Paulo 2026
_location: São Paulo, Brazil

An exhibition is rarely just a collection of finished spaces. It is also a sequence, a rhythm of thresholds, pauses and transitions that shape how architecture, nature and memory are experienced together. The most memorable shows are not necessarily the ones with the boldest individual rooms, but the ones that understand movement itself as a design tool, guiding the visitor’s body through changing scales, materials and states of mind before a single interior is even reached.

This was the spirit behind the 2026 edition of CASACOR São Paulo, held for the second consecutive year inside the Parque da Água Branca. Spread across more than 70 environments, houses, studios, tiny houses, gardens, staircases, art installations and spaces for debate, the exhibition was conceived not as a catalogue of separate projects, but as a single continuous route, unfolding under the theme “Mind and Heart.”

The journey begins before any threshold is crossed. A muxarabi façade by José Luiz Favaro and Yuri Matsui Ramos wraps the perimeter of the show, filtering light and blurring the boundary between park and exhibition. From there, the path drifts through a garden shaped like a mandala, past a bamboo ticket booth built around the idea of organic intelligence, and into a landscape that investigates the park’s original biome as a form of listening rather than decoration.

Further along, the route widens into houses that read as different arguments about how to inhabit space, from a bossa-inspired loft to a co-living project rooted in Bolivian baroque heritage, before returning outdoors through tiny houses, a sauna, a bar and a sequence of gardens that close the circuit. Nearly 40% of this path remains open to the public, folding the exhibition into the everyday life of the park rather than sealing it off from it.

What holds the whole itinerary together is restraint rather than spectacle. Elevated flooring, potted vegetation and warm, low-impact lighting were used throughout the outdoor sections to protect the site’s trees and nocturnal wildlife, while commissioned artworks produced in dialogue with their regions of origin punctuate the walk with moments of pause. By the time the path reaches its final garden, CASACOR São Paulo 2026 has stopped feeling like an exhibition of interiors and become something closer to a choreography, one written for the park as much as for its visitors.

_article written by Daniela Moreira da Silva
_images by Architecture Hunter
_images courtesy of Casacor