Tag Archives: intervenção

The Fun Theory

Is there a way to change the way we deal with the city day-by-day?
Yes there is.

See more here:
http://www.thefuntheory.com/

Idleness and leisure with no consumption in the city

Lígia Milagres
(Graduation Project, 2nd term/2008, unit master: Silke Kapp)
The following boards summarize the proposal of the Graduation Project developed by me at the School of Architecture at UFMG, in 2008. The project suggests the insertion of free spaces through the routes and quotidian activities of the inhabitants of the oldest part in Bairro [...]

Give the park back to the city

Architect Roberto Andrés is a collaborator of Hoje em Dia newspaper. Published in March 2009, the text below comments the absurd history of Parque Municipal, the main park of Belo Horizonte, whose area was reduced to less than a third of its original 15,21 hectares.
Devolver o Parque à cidade
Roberto R. Andrés
The Parque Municipal [...]

Invisible Public Spaces

Van Alen Institute_New York Prize Fellowship 2008-2009 Proposal
Vazio S/A Arquitetura (Void Inc.) + Cia. Suspensa (Suspended Company)

Introduction: zoning + private and public spaces
NY did not have any restriction in terms of height, use and density until the adoption of the first Building Zone Resolution in 1916. The multiplication of this model – epitomized by [...]

Under the Viaducts

Under the Viaducts of the East-West Expressway Project
AWF-Brazil – Architects without Frontiers – Brazil (Flávio Agostini, Luciana Miglio Cajado, Carlos M Teixeira)
1. Introduction
It is widely known that large Brazilian cities have areas belonging to the public sector, a reservoir of idle land, subject to occupation by low-income population and even by formal economic sectors. Generally [...]

Topographical Amnesias

A comparison between the suburban structuring piles in Brazil, to the use of the ‘pilotis’ — one of the five points of Le Corbusier, which was used to elevate the mass off the ground. Prevoiusly published at the Asian journal Architexturez.

Carlos M Teixeira and Louise Ganz
Intro
“Topographical Amnesias” is the title of our winning entry for [...]