DADOS

TEXTO

1.  CONTEXT AND MEMORY
 
The site is located at an urban center, which is developed in the existing interval between two important natural borders: the Gwangiu River and MT Midung.  The urban fabric found is fractional and uneven; a complex texture resulting from the overlaying of several urban layers at different historical moments.  The intervention area is the portrait of such complexity. In this area, the remains of a recent past live together with the sediments of the medieval city constituting groups of urban antiquities, which tell us the birth and the history of a community searching for its ideas.
 
2. STRATEGY FOR A TERRITORY
The proposal idealizes the implantation as a hyper textual metaphor of the urban topography. The new complex is inserted in the context of the city through an architectonic complex jointed in a continuous form, which lines up to the streets that bound the place creating a sense of enclosure for the pedestrians.  The design proposal also involves the existing historical constructions obtaining a fluid course of buildings, which glides through the terrain and enhance the use of its several interfaces.  The implantation makes available the construction of two public squares with distinct characteristics: the first one, the Citizen Square, is formal and preserves the memory of the arrivals of May 28th; the second one, the Fortress Square, is welcoming and provides a large space for entertainment. The Children’s Museum, symbolically implanted on the diagonal of the ancient wall, becomes the transition between the two spaces.  A big axis lowered in the alignment of the Art Street is the element of the pedestrian urban connection among several functions of the design.
 
3. WATER
The landscape design is an important aspect in the implantation of the new complex. It is intended not only to create an urban scenography but primarily to assimilate the new elements of such landscape in the building itself.  The water makes the connection between the ancient buildings and the design proposal making the whole in the urban landscape intertwine.
 
4. ECOLOGICAL RESPONSIVENESS
The design proposal focus in the passive low-energy approach by:

1. The continuous form of the building complex has a small transversal section that easily generate cross ventilation (all windows are possible to open) and also natural daylight;
2. The complex is carefully implanted at the best orientation for the main facades according to each use;
3. Sun shades are used at all south, east and west facades as a second skin to protect the inside of the building of direct sun light;
4. The building foot print is well balanced representing 50% of the gross area of the site;
5. The building height is leveled with most existing buildings at the surroundings;
6. The design proposal provides transitional areas with the same area as its footprint where green are planted on the roof tops where photovoltaic panels can be installed to produce energy;
7. Flexibility is strongly explore by using a modular system and open spaces that can be used as multi-functional spaces, shared spaces and managed spaces;
8. The building has a modular grid for its structure.  All components are designed from this grid and can be easily industrialized, removed and replaced when and/or if necessary;
9. Aluminum used to fabricate all frame windows and all the glass used in the building should be from recycling sources to reduce energy consumption and air pollution;
10. At the service axis the waste is collected to be recycled;
11. A great permeable area under an urban wooden deck at the Fortress Square limit the volume and duration of the water runoff;
12. Near by the subway entrances at both public squares and close to the main building entrances bicycle rack are strategic located;
13. Because of the great proportions of the building, its construction has potential to produce its own concrete at the building site helping on reducing transport during construction;

CRÉDITOS

FICHA TÉCNICA
Autor do Projeto: Luis Eduardo Loiola Menezes
Equipe: Luis Eduardo Loiola Menezes, Maria Cristina Menezes, Fábio Zeppelini, André Weigand e Roberto Cabariti Filho
Perspectivas Eletrônicas: André Weigand e Roberto Cabariti Filho

 

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