Superiscope

16 September 2015

Superiscope

Superiscope

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Pedro Barata e Arquitetos Associados were commissioned to create something special with a container.

How were you commissioned?:
Inivitation from an architecture show with top brazilian architects

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What was the brief from the client and how much were they involved?:
Use a container and do something special

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How did the brief affect the materials and design choices?:
We've searched for the most special thing around and found out that it was the city Lagoon, despite not being seen from the plot

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How did your previous experience help you with this project?:
We have 4 other projets where we´ve used periscopes before (a house, an office, a comercial follie and a condominium entrance)

Can you explain the layout of the project:
If we rotate it to vertical, a container is like an urban scale ready-made periscope. By providing it with the two mirrors that activate the system, our proposal aims for a simultaneously global and local contribution: global, as it provides the recent history of container's creative recycling with a new chapter; local, as it allows the public inside the plot to see, above all the city buildings, the Lagoon after which the city is named, through the new periscope-conteiner, the SUPERISCOPE.

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What problems or challenges did you face?:
Finding the perfect angle and spot for the periscope to see above all the buildings and trees, into the Lagoon

What do you feel were the most unusual design elements of the project?:
It's the first container-periscope ever made

How do you think this project is pushing design forward? What makes it special?:
By impregnating the periscope with a colective sense; it upgrades architecture, from a narrative to an hypertext, with straigtht connections between supposedly faraway elements

Suppliers Please provide details of product names and suppliers where possible.:
One Container, Apex Construction

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