The UO-BS Petrobras Warehouse in Santos Basin: from the architectural archeology to the restoration
project
The State of São Paulo’s coffee production has been exported to Europe since 1795. Production flow was
speed up around the middle of the XIX century when
The São Paulo Railway Company
built the first
railroad. In 1863 a site was chosen to allocate the most important warehouse for coffee storage before
shipment.
In 2008 Petrobras bought the warehouse building, which was in advanced deterioration, to
install the new corporate headquarters of the Santos Basin Exploration and Production Operations Unit.
With the aim to maintain the structural integrity of the existing building, in 2011 the restoration project,
based on a detailed architectural survey, was developed through the Autodesk Revit software. In this
article, the proposed project, already performed, with a critical-conservative approach for maximizing the
preservation of the historical building is presented.
