The project
DESIGN BRIEF
Fitting the scale of the city's past and representing its bucolic refuge, Halfeld Park, with its English-style landscaping and in line with the founding-era brief, long invited the people of Juiz de Fora to escape into nature.
It preserved these traits until 1981, when it underwent a deep and permanent transformation.
Invited to develop the park's revitalization project, the architect Rosa Kliass proposed its requalification, turning the park into a plaza with broad, monumental spaces while still respecting its original character.
Following that transformation, the park was designated a heritage site and has received only minor changes since.
With the new century, as the city surpasses half a million inhabitants, the need to update it returns.
Aiming to make it more accessible and inclusive, better equipped and safer, this project proposes the addition of new public and scenic lighting, redesigned street furniture, a police post, renovated restrooms, and a new tourism center.
With a design sensitive to and respectful of its cultural and artistic legacy, the project seeks to preserve this valuable public asset as a landmark of urban vitality.
