Orla Conde – Olympic Boulevard in Rio de Janeiro in Rio, Brazil by B+ABR Backheuser e Riera Arquitetura

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B + ABR – Backheuser and Riera Arquitetura is an architecture and urban planning firm founded in 2014 as a result of the partnership between the offices BlAC and ABR, which started in 2010.

As of the experience acquired by their partners, responsible amongst others for projects such as Olympic arenas, housing, schools, corporative, hotels and several urbanization projects, B + ABR aims at a collaborative and multidisciplinary future , seeking to leverage the exchange of experiences and the symbiosis between the Brazilian-Carioca and Spanish-Catalan cultures to the utmost.

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• Architects: B+ABR Backheuser e Riera Arquitetura
• Project: Orla Conde – Olympic Boulevard
• Location: Praça Mauá, 1. Rio de Janeiro. RJ, Brazil
• Photography: Miguel Sa, André Sanches, Francis Figueiredo, PortoNovo/Prefeitura, Ignasi Riera, JoaoP Backheuser
• Software used: Autocad, Photoshop, SketchUp, V-Ray
• Authors: João Pedro Backheuser/ Ignasi Riera
• Project leaders: Javier Zaldívar / Enrique Valiente
• Team: Mikel Muñoz, Paolo Nadalin, Victor Pastor, Rosario Portillo, André Sanches, Antoni Soler, Pilar Tejero
• Other clients and consultants: CDURP (Companhia de Desenvolvimento Urbano da Região do Porto de Rio de Janeiro-attached to Council),
• PortoNovo (concessionary), PortoRio (contractor), RAIAR (architecture consultant), Engecorps (Structures and Installations), Lucia Costa e Francis
• Soares (Softscaping)
• Total area (m2): 252.000 m2 (25,2 Ha.)
• Year finished: 2016

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With a mixed team based in the city of Rio de Janeiro, the purpose is to establish a multicultural and multidisciplinary practice in different scales and typologies of projects through a solid relationship of partnership with its clients, employees and its team.

Together, BlAC and ABR won the “Porto Olímpico” competition (2011) and since then it has been developing several projects, amongst which the Porto Vida residential complex, the Luiz Paulo Conde Urbanization (the Water Promenade) in the port and center region of Rio and the Hotel Moinho Fluminense, all of them as B+ABR.

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The “Orla Conde” Project is part of the process of transformation and urban recharacterization of the port region and centre of Rio de Janeiro, deriving from Porto Maravilha’s urban operation.

The demolition of the raised viaduct is defined as one of the main interventions carried out within the site of Porto Maravilha. Built in the 60’s, the viaduct ripped patterns and had a negative impact on the port region’s landscape, breaking its proximity with the Baía de Guanabara (a bay). This removal, along the year 2014, gives back landscapes and forgotten places to the city of Rio, even sometimes unknown, and returns to the city and pedestrians a large area along the Baia de Guanabara’s waterfront.

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Seen in the last 50 years as a deteriorated, industrial and abandoned area, a “non-place”, the approximate 250.000 m2 of the Orla Conde are not only a fundamental piece for the renewal and revitalisation of the port area, but also of the centre of the city. Focusing on the citizen/pedestrian, the Orla Conde stablishes a change of paradigm, leaving behind a city that prioritized the car over pedestrians.

Image Courtesy © Andre Sanches

Image Courtesy © Andre Sanches

The project allows a pacific and organized coexistence of different means of transport (VLT-tram, bicycles, vehicles and alternative transportations), generates resting and playing areas, unveils historic buildings and views and landscapes to the bay. It attempts to recover the integration of the built city with the Baía de Guanabara, in addition to giving support to future activities and new functions which will have to emerge in the revitalized centre and the Porto Maravilha region.

Image Courtesy © Miguel Sa

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Image Courtesy © Andre Sanches

Image Courtesy © Andre Sanches

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Tags: Brazil, Rio

Categories: Autocad, Photoshop, Port's public spaces, public spaces, SketchUp, V-Ray, Water Park

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