Oi Futuro

Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Oi Futuro

Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Firm

Oficina de Arquitetos

Type

Commercial › Exhibition Center

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2006

SIZE

3000 sqft - 5000 sqft

OI FUTURO, RIO DE JANEIRO, RJ

In 1999, the Telemar Institute together with the Institute of Architects of Brazil promoted a National Ideas Competition for the reformulation of the Museum of Telecomunication MUST, built in 1918 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The winning design was chosen amongst 63 projects of all over the country, developed by a team formed by the architects Ana Paula Polizzo, Andre Lompreta, Gustavo Martins, Marco Milazzo and Thorsten Nolte.

The project is based on the dialogue between the historic building and the actual intervention. By a partly preservation of the historic building and the construction of a new volume on distance to the antique part, 3 zones were defined for the new space:
1. the preserved part of the historic building, that was kept with its peculiar characteristics,
2. the new construction, using a contrasting architectural language,
3. the open space, formed for the interstice between the two masses, keeping a harmonic dialogue between the parts.

MESH OVERLAPPING

The Graphic Orientation of the project is based in the overlapping of the ortogonal structure of the existing building, and the mesh created by free angles that determine all the new lines of intervention. For the mesh of the new volume, it was chosen a referring subject of communication: the connection - communications ways - between all the capitals of Brazil. The subjectivity of the creation of the new mesh, created to oppose the two times, was determinative to establish the drawing of all the intervention, perceivable in the “sewing” of the two masses, in the graphical of its spaces and the composition of the coated zinc elevation.

URBAN INTERVENTION

The demolition in the old construction was partial. The main and lateral elevations, the old structure and the internal coverings had been kept, conserving its volumetric identification.

With the opening of a new lateral street to the construction, the Museum of the Telecommunications, gains an privileged implantation, that requires a mass adequate to the neighborhood, following all the urban requirements and becoming legible the internal organization of the museum, besides valuing its elevations, and the set that this makes with the IAB.

In order to become the building accessible to everyone, we modified the old access to the Museum, that was in the preserved elevation with one launch of stair. The new access is made by the lateral street, where the elevation is totaly of transparent glass and the level of the external floor is equal to the one in the internal floor, strengthening the idea of continuity between internal space and external space. In the old entrance of the Museum a place for spreading of the expositions was created.

This new access was projected retreated in relation to the alignment, generating an inclined facade, that follows the lines of the created mesh, leading the visitors to the new entrance of the museum. In this form the museum opens for the city, stimulating the observer the desire of approaching and seeing what it exists in the interior.

In the South elevation, are detached the new mass and the mass of concrete of the emergency stairs, separated by a great wooden panel and a glass facade, where it was created a secondary access for load and employees entrance. Metallic bridges with pierced plate floor binds the floors to the stairs and makes possible the sight of the back street.

THE TWO TIMES

The connection link between the old building and the new intervention is defined by the creation of a empty space, that cuts the volume of the museum. This empty space is closed by a glass elevation, and is covered by a skylight with automatized brieses, allowing the light entrance. The stairs and elevator are developed in this space, establishing connection in a interactive way to the exposition areas, just that the preserved floors are connected to the new four floors in intermediate levels.

The constructed new slabs are made of concrete, without beams, making possible the best exploitation of the space. The stairs that connects the floors are made of metallic structure, with steps and rails made of glass, making possible the passage of the light. The elevator constitutes a detached volume, with one of its faces panoramic, with transparent glass and horizontal brieses wooden, creating a estroboscopic vision of the interior of the Museum.

It has the clear visibility of all the floors that compose the space, can be understood where it is and where it is wanted to go. The movement through the emptiness allows to dynamics, where the stairs, that follow the force biggest of the project, are part of the passage inside of the architecture.

In the same way, the internal spaces had been organized following this bigger order: The new levels have metallic cylinders columns and the floor is made of concrete, while the old levels have squared columns and the floor preserved wooden race of the demolition.

Despite the old building and the new volume remains as two moments of the architecture, these areas constitute one all integrated mass, having always a dialogue between past and present.

The access floor will be the reception, where will occur events, products selling,a bookstore,and presentation of technological products. The contemporary art gallery is located in second level, where the expositions will be temporary. In the third level if it finds the administration of the Museum and is where the expositions of long duration start continuing until the sixth floor. The intercalated and totally opened floors make possible a continuity of the expositions.

In the seventh level, formed by a total closed volume and with height of twelve meters, it finds the space of multiple use, presenting diverse options of organization, therefore the seats are made by dismountable modules, with untied chairs. In the last floor it finds the Cyber-coffee with a terrace that makes possible the sight of the beach.