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Conceived as a new mixed-use and live-work district, the Novo Iguaçu Moda Center and housing cluster is a vision plan that brings affordable housing, basic services, recreational facilities and employment into a single site along the northern edge of the Río de Janeiro Metropolitan Region.

A series of design operations define the site as a corridor within a larger valley, establishing connections to the city’s edge to the south, and recuperating a river that currently is extremely polluted.

The general site plan places the main Moda Center Market and the school towards the main street, in order to guarantee access to the greater community. The housing units are organized in a series of nested blocks towards the interior of the site, with recreational facilities facing the river.

Housing units are organized in a series of courtyards defined by thin double-bars. The courtyards accommodate co-working spaces and community services.

Parking is camouflaged in the interior of the block, as land that in the future can be further built upon, in the case that parking requirements are reduced. Units are organized around a series of courtyards that define many scales of open space within the super-block.

Linear patios between the two residential bars allow for additional privacy and cross ventilation in every unit.

A variety of units ranging from micro-units to two bedroom units populate the residential blocks.

The Moda Center is conceived as an open plan market underneath a louvered canopy. The canopy brings in filtered light.

The structure is planned as a central spine from where sub-spines can grow over time.

The canopy is layered with strips of vegetation in order to create green open spaces and also drop the overall temperature in the space.

The school follows the same logic as the Moda Center, a large canopy that accommodates a series of volumes that become classrooms.

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Conceived as a new mixed-use and live-work district, the Novo Iguaçu Moda Center and housing cluster is a vision plan that brings affordable housing, basic services, recreational facilities and employment into a single site along the northern edge of the Río de Janeiro Metropolitan Region.

A series of design operations define the site as a corridor within a larger valley, establishing connections to the city’s edge to the south, and recuperating a river that currently is extremely polluted.

The general site plan places the main Moda Center Market and the school towards the main street, in order to guarantee access to the greater community. The housing units are organized in a series of nested blocks towards the interior of the site, with recreational facilities facing the river.

Housing units are organized in a series of courtyards defined by thin double-bars. The courtyards accommodate co-working spaces and community services.

Parking is camouflaged in the interior of the block, as land that in the future can be further built upon, in the case that parking requirements are reduced. Units are organized around a series of courtyards that define many scales of open space within the super-block.

Linear patios between the two residential bars allow for additional privacy and cross ventilation in every unit.

A variety of units ranging from micro-units to two bedroom units populate the residential blocks.

The Moda Center is conceived as an open plan market underneath a louvered canopy. The canopy brings in filtered light.

The structure is planned as a central spine from where sub-spines can grow over time.

The canopy is layered with strips of vegetation in order to create green open spaces and also drop the overall temperature in the space.

The school follows the same logic as the Moda Center, a large canopy that accommodates a series of volumes that become classrooms.

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