Conexidade Installation

Conexidade Installation
© Renato Mangolin
Conexidade Installation
© Renato Mangolin

CONEXIDADE INSTALLATION

Estúdio Chão

ARCHITECTS
Estúdio Chão

PROJECT TEAM
Flávia Castro, Jacqueline dos Prazeres, Laís Antunes, Luiza Peixoto

STRUCTURE CONTRACTOR
Prumoflex Engenharia, Janaim Fonseca, Rogério Custódio

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Adriano Carneiro Mendonça & Antonio Pedro Coutinho + Antoine Olivier

REALIZATION
RDN_Rio de Negócios, Diogo Castelão

SCENOGRAPHY CONTRACTOR
Pdvex

LIGHT DESIGN
Companhia da Luz, Gabriel Farinon, César de Ramires

STRUCTURAL PROJECT/STRUCTURE RENTAL
Layher, Eliseu Lopes, Peter Coito

PROJECT DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
Estúdio Chão + Antoine Olivier

AREA
20500 m²

YEAR
2018

LOCATION
Centro, Brazil

CATEGORY
Temporary Installations

Text description provided by architect.

Estúdio Chão has been invited to conceive and imagine an urban occupation for the Conexidade occupation in Praça XV square, famous for its cultural heritage in the center of Rio de Janeiro.

Conexidade Installation
© Diego Padilha
Conexidade Installation
© Diego Padilha

The square was occupied throughout a weekend by an intense program of cultural and educational activities in the fields of art, sport, and technology.

The occupation, conceived in close collaboration with architecture, became a festival in which public space and urban culture served as a nexus for programming.

Conexidade Installation
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Conexidade Installation
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Aiming at sheltering the great diversity and simultaneity of actions, and at the same time operating in dialogue with the privileged urban situation, the architecture was conceived as an ephemeral citadel superimposed on the square, its flows and its landmarks - Paço Imperial, Master Valentin Fountain, Ferry Station, and the Olympic Boulevard.

A new layer of uses and flows that, for two days, re-presented the square, opening new avenues and perspectives, enhancing pre-existing occupations - such as the Skateboard Collective XV - and revealing possible new relationships on a more human scale of proximity.

Conexidade Installation
© Renato Mangolin
Conexidade Installation
© Renato Mangolin

A counterpoint to the routine occupations of events in this and other city squares, often invasive and unaware of urban singularities.

The various structures, all in scaffolding structure, were designed to house the diversity of activities such as concerts, lectures, workshops, street performances, and skateboarding.

Conexidade Installation
© Diego Padilha
Conexidade Installation
© Diego Padilha

Thus, they also served as formal and constructive experimentation from a narrow range of components that underscore their ephemeral character.

Lightweight overlays and closures such as the greenhouse shading screens were designed to soften the strong summer sun while enhancing the strong language of the support structure(scaffolding).

Conexidade Installation
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Conexidade Installation
© Diego Padilha

The same system was used as a support for furniture and meetings, living and play areas. Without any separation of ambiance, climate or floor, each space was designed as an invitation to enjoy and celebrate being in the square.

In times of discredit and political marginalization of the public space, the Conexidade occupation serves as a potent catalyst for encounters of urban life.
A collective expression of the street, about the street, in the street.

Conexidade Installation
© Diego Padilha


Conexidade Installation
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Conexidade Installation
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Conexidade Installation
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Conexidade Installation
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Conexidade Installation
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Conexidade Installation
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Conexidade Installation
© Diego Padilha
Conexidade Installation
© Diego Padilha
Conexidade Installation
© Renato Mangolin
Conexidade Installation
© Renato Mangolin
Conexidade Installation
© Diego Padilha
Conexidade Installation
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Conexidade Installation
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Conexidade Installation
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Conexidade Installation
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Conexidade Installation
General Floor Plan