Blog Session 6

Today I have to do a summary about a new related to my studies.

So I took this news http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2013/aug/01/rio-2016-olympic-urban-plan-legacy and it is about the planning of the next Olympics games. Also I saw other column about some similarities between designs, one from the Olympic ceremony in London and the other from a design student of 2005.

I choose it, because it's related with the idea of confront an unusual place for a spectacle and all the creation of this place and their functionality.

Summary:

The Rio 2016 Olympics. 

The next Olympics Games will be in Brazil and the Olympics architects revealed that it will be placed over a lagoon.

But there is a big difference between London and Rio, because Brazil is an emerging nation so they have to do more things in less time than they did in London.

This project is on the hands of Aecom, an initial of Architecture, Engineering, Consulting, Operations and Maintenance, but they include a lot of others jobs. It's a huge company with at least 45.000 workers, offices in different sides of the world. They have all the required disciplines for building a city, because the games at the moment aren't just games, also involves an urban regeneration in the place.

Beside the time factor, they have a good point as the place is about the half of the size of London's and they don't have to fix a lot of problems in the places, as pollution or others (But the lake it's too polluted for swimming)

The Olympics games will be across five places, from the forest of Docoro to Copacabana beach and the opening and closing shows will be placed in the Maracana Stadium.

Aecom will focus the Olympic park in the district of Barra da Tijuca, crated by Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer. For the kind of architecture in the place it will be easily mixed.

This park will be placed on a flat triangular peninsular which is over Jacarepaguá Lagoon. This is a mixture of leftovers that they will reuse. And it's between two mountains in a valley so they design a "river" that go thought the park, it will have the shape of a snake and it's made of stripes.

Being the host of the Olympic plays gives you transformation on the place (about urbanisms) which is taken as a legacy; and this year is about reduce the national discontent (about the public money spent on the Olympics and the World Cup)

Obviously they have issues with the people who lives around because of the evacuation order and the destruction of their communities and mostly because after the games they place will be for rich people and not for them.