​Location: Bertioga - São Paulo
Property: Reserve 432.049 m² | Visitor Center Site 15.533m² |   Construction projects 2.541m2

Located in the urban perimeter of the municipality of Bertioga, coast of the São Paulo State, the Sesc Nature Reserve has a wide variety of restinga fauna and flora and awaits state recognition to become a RPPN - Private Natural Reserve, with the objective of developing activities for environmental education, tourism, social valorization and research.

In the last 3 years I have joined the team that did the site research for the Master Plan (Phase 1), I was one of the teachers during the Course for Conception of Public Use Infrastructures in Protected Areas (Phase 2) and together with architect Regina Pinheiro we developed the concept project for the new visitor center (Phase 3).

Phase 1 - Started in March 2014, under the coordination of Sesc in São Paulo and the Institute Ecofuturo, that managed the Master Plan for the reserve. The team had eight groups of researchers who, for twenty-four months, Studied the following topics: Biotic aspects, geographic aspects, socioeconomic aspects, historical and cultural aspects, visitation, geoprocessing, management, diagnosis and participatory planning.

My participation was in the visitation planning team, with the team of the turismologist specialized in ecotourism Paula Arantes (Muirakitã) and forest engineer Tom Adnet (Adnet Florestal).

Phase 2 - I was one of the course teachers' team and workshop for managing protected areas and discussing with participants the ideal program for the reserve and taught a lesson on using user experiences to create priorities in the briefing.

Phase 3 - As a result I and Regina Pinheiro made initial project with definition of the general concept of the project and volumetries and basic projects of the buildings.