SITE PLAN
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01 - Semi-detached house (administrative sector) 02 - Proposed building
03 - Mobile Buildings 04 - terrace 05 - Photo-voltaic plates
PROGRAM The ground floor of the building was designed to be as free and open as possible, so as to bring the gardens of the mansion and the public space of the street as an extension of the building. This decision integrates the construction with its public and private surroundings and generously offers the visitors a new place of cultural interest for Rio de Janeiro. The ground floor is composed by an open and enclosed exhibition halls, a library and an open stepped slope space that can be converted to an auditorium. The theater / cinema was raised from the ground floor to give way space to the auditorium. In this room we perceive the possibility of permanent use, either as an auditorium or as a place of living for the users of the building. By the use of curtains it can be closed as much visually for the public as to allow the conditioning of air inside it. The theater has an acoustic glass stage background closure with a curtain-operated inner skin made of blackout fabric. With the closed black-out curtain the space has
its normal use, once open the visual connection between the interior and the gardens is made, bringing the palace and its gardens into the theater. The vertical circulation is designed by two different ways, the first is by a staircase that walks through the high ceiling of the hall and the internal courtyard to the terrace of the restaurant. From the restaurant you can access the green roof of the Firjan house and gain 360 degree views. The second is through two elevators that together with the emergency staircase and toilets compose a vertical block constructed with the material coming from the clearing of the pre-existing building on the site. The reused bricks and stones brings to the present vestiges of the past under a new perspective. In addition to avoiding waste, we add affective value and remember another symbol of the archetypal industry, the great chimneys. The new building will express through the wide use of metallic structure, often apparent, a strong factory identity.
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