Edifício São Vito, popularly known as Treme-Treme (literally "Shiver-Shiver"), was a , 27-story former residential building, located in São Paulo, Brazil, finished in 1959. Throughout its existence, the building became deteriorated and earned a reputation of São Paulo's biggest vertical cortiço (slum). The city expropriated and evacuated the building in 2004. History Construction and first decades The building was designed by Aron Kogan and built by the company Zarzur & Kogan, also responsible for the design and building of Brazil's tallest building, Mirante do Vale, located less than a mile west of São Vito. Construction began in 1954 and ended five years later. The original lot was . The architecture of the building was inspired by modernism and it was first conceived as a solution for popular housing, although it also had space for commercial establishments. It was aimed at liberal professionals, immigrants, travelers and people who arrived at the city and had nowhere else to go. The building was made of reinforced concrete with horizontal brise soleils. Three elevators originally served it. The top floor was an open area, which was used for events in the 1960s. The internal corridors were wide and the internal staircases, . Originally, the building had 624 apartments (24 in every floor), each measuring . Deterioration In 1985, the magazine Veja em São Paulo wrote that the building was "perhaps, the biggest concentration of people of the city, (with) three thousand inhabitants, mostly low-paid and informal workers and prostitutes". In a 2009 article, the magazine Época stated that the building started to deteriorate in the 1980s because of the population's homogeneous poverty, differently from similar buildings such as Edifício Copan, which attracted middle-class families. The deterioration was reinforced as apartments started to be split into two, and electricity started to be obtained illegally (80% of the electricity of the building was illegally supplied as of 2002). Another reason was the suspension of the waste services – rubbish was then simply thrown out of the windows., with dirty water and food. Inhabitants of the building could use the water from two artesian aquifers until 1982, when the Tamanduateí River flooded and polluted the water. Sabesp was so designated as the company responsible for the supplying of water, with a higher cost. Only one of the three elevators was still working in 2002, but it could only reach the 15th of the 27 floors, generating half-hour