Hub Salvador

The Hub Salvador project arises from the city of Salvador itself, with its shapes, colors, textures, sounds, and flavors. We seek to bring one of the many translations of the "soteropolitan" identity into this space of innovation, which originated in the capital of Bahia. The architecture was built by blending common elements of people's daily lives and collective imagination, merging architectural elements of the vernacular construction of Salvador, as well as the traditional and historical architecture of the city.
Implanted on a 990.00 m² floor of a business building in Salvador's financial center, the space was received with exposed structure, with minimal coverings. With a focus on minimizing resources invested in the project, we embraced the building as it was delivered, which became the starting point of the project. The decision not to use a raised floor, where installations usually take place, guided the spatial distribution of the entire project. Most of the environments and workstations are linked to the outer perimeter of the floor, where we created a large passage of installations in the form of a bench that connects all electrical and data points of each user. The program distribution on the periphery of the floor gave rise to a large sinuous circulation in the center of the floor, where we used an epoxy painting as a floor marking installed on the existing slab.
Along this path, which supposedly draws inspiration from the sinuous lines of Lina Bo Bardi to the lake of Casa do Benim, we zoned the office work areas, distributing as many work desks as possible and creating decompression areas at strategic points to provide users with flexibility and greater enjoyment in their daily work routine.
In the café, the entrance and main visibility point of the project, we used ceramic tiles, sourced from the "Asilo dos Azulejos," playing with colors and bringing references from clay objects of the "Recôncavo Baiano." A covering of corrugated tiles, so common in the architecture of what we call the "real Salvador," creates unity in the café space, also referencing the reinforced mortar panels widely used in the works of Lina Bo Bardi and Lelé in the city's historic center.
Micro meeting rooms pay homage to the entire history of blacksmiths and marble workers of Ladeira da Conceição da Praia in Salvador, Bahia. We used ceramic tiles sourced from "Asilo dos Azulejos" in Itapuã, including pieces from the Brennand ceramics of Recife, dated back to 1970.
The space also includes 5 individual use and call cabins strategically distributed at both ends of the floor, bringing a strong reference to this real Salvador, as it exposes materials that formal architecture tends to conceal, alluding subtly to the city's profound religiosity.
The Hub Salvador emerges as an innovative space where architecture not only accommodates but celebrates the "soteropolitan" identity. Rooted in local traditions, the place also draws from the vibrant and rich cultural and architectural heritage of Salvador.