Max Feffer Centre
Green architecture.
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Pardinho is a small country town of about seven thousand people in São Paulo state, at 898 metres near the Serra de Botucatu, which split from Botucatu as a municipality of its own in 1959. Settlement began in the eighteenth century when the lands of the Serra de Botucatu were divided into grants, one of whose farms gave rise to both Pardinho and Botucatu. Difficult access slowed its growth until a road linking Sorocaba to the headwaters of the Pardo River opened in 1830, bringing settlers who set up small farms. Its best-known sight today is the Max Feffer Centre for Culture and Sustainability, built in 2008 on a public square and designed by the architect Leiko Motomura with a bamboo roof; a world-renowned example of sustainable building with LEED green-building certification, it hosts arts and cultural activities. Quiet fields and uplands surround the town.
Green architecture.
At 898 m.
A short trip.
Pardinho, Serra de Botucatu, São Paulo state
Its bamboo roof and LEED-certified sustainable design.