The Year in Sao Paulo, Brazil is a new interactive dance club which features a LED cage that responds to sensors positioned around the space. Clubbing is as much defined by the venue as it is the music, as much the lighting system as it is the crowd. It's a multi-sensory experience. So it's fitting that a new venture that has just opened up in Sao Paulo would bring all of the aforementioned elements together.

The Year in Sao Paulo has just opened in an old industrial space located in the Vila Nova Leopoldina area of the city. Designed by design studio Estudio Guto Requena, the club features an interactive LED cage which responds to several sensors positioned around the space.

The visual identity of the club is created through the recurring motif of an organic geometric pattern found in nature, which appears on the ceilings and walls in the hallways. The sensors connected to the LED cage respond to the temperature of the club and movement of the dancers, changing in colour and pattern, behaving like an extension of the clubbers. Alternatively, the DJ has full control of the venue by dictating the light effects through his own body movements.

The rest of the nightclub is designed in a modular way so the space can accommodate different set ups depending on the requirements. There are multiple bars, the DJ area can be transformed into a stage and the outside terrace has a retractable roof.