BRAZILIAN MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY
The city’s traditional blueprint was made up as a grid based on blocks, a thing that brings cohesiveness. However, the modernist city conception broke away from the block idea generating a loss of cohesion. The post-modernist city project is actually the attempt to retrieve the traditional city’s values. The project area mixes up the benefits found in traditional blocks and the ruptures found in modernist’s blocks. The design, with its daring architecture, aims for the innovation in a traditional area made up of various layers. With its sharp edges, and its self-intercepted volumes, the new building wants to stand out in a spot where a notable palace had been before. The Monroe Palace. Placed right on Rio de Janeiro’s downtown, next to Passeio Publico Park, the project aims to create a block where no block had existed before. A project to recover a place with a very troubled past of buildings and tearing ups, such as the construction and demolishing of Monroe Palace. This is a project to recover a place suffering from a neglect that has changed it into a non place.