Monument to Women's Memory

[...] Unfortunately, the vast majority of participants seem to have forgotten everything. Very large and very complicated buildings were proposed, eliminating access, occupying the entire land, as if the relationship between volumes and open spaces were not fundamental. [ ...]" Oscar Niemeyer - Minutes of the Shinkenchiku contest, 1999.

The conception of the project takes place, in the first moment, by the construction of the landscape.  The scale of the monumental axis encourages the location of any intervention in a quiet but austere way.  The urban void is necessary to maintain the individuality of each pre-existing building, as well as its iconicity.  The immediate surroundings are made up of three roads, one of which, the N2, is capable of creating a loading and unloading entrance.  The flow axes were designed to enhance the existing bus stop at L2, in addition to the path already used by pedestrians in the longitudinal direction of the land.

Through the game of platforms and ramps, guided by the axes of flow, an articulation of scales is created, making the transition from the monumental scale, demarcated through the main square, with the gregarious scale, which arises through the relationship of the gallery with the auditorium.

The project was awarded 1st place.