Horizontal and Vertical Volumes
ABOUT
The intervention site is an avenue with a great density of modernist monumental buildings that serve an automobile scale, but that is not coherence for the pedestrian scale.
It is intended to articulate and to join the surrounding buildings to the soil of the city and to organize the public space, with the introduction of two new buildings and respective squares.
The project presents two parallelepipeds, one vertically and another horizontally destined ateliers, a terminal of busses and an architecture school.
Both volumes assume two "distinct skins" in the main facades. The southeast façade represents a game between full/empties, creating a chess pattern with a wooden skin that can be more or less permeable according to the opening of the windows.
The other “skin", the northwest facade, it is totally interactive with the user, intending to provoke and to awake their interest in the possibility of having a continuous transformation of the facade. The skin is formed with innumerable horizontal wooden bars with an axle of rotation in the center.
The ateliers are in vertical parallelepiped, the University of Architecture is situated in the horizontal parallelepiped and the square of the vertical parallelepiped solves the terminal of buses and some local commerce that assures the essential living movement to it.
The square of the horizontal parallelepiped contains two volumes that abruptly tear it and an empty that guarantees the illumination of the activities in the underground floor (library and refectory).
Location:
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Project Year:
2005
Programme:
Public, architecture University, ateliers and bus terminal
Team:
Tiago Vieira de Sousa at University