Man transforms the environment, interferes with nature producing spaces that harbor their daily activities. This is done by provoking change,building objects, and inserting devises into the the natural environment. This intervention, a design by Estúdio 41, suggests a reflection on the relationship between nature and artifice, proposing buildings that build: artifacts and landscape, cover and relief, shelter and open space. As the 1st place prize winner, their design creates a place where working means life quality, surrounded by leisure facilities, designed for outdoors experience. A place to exchange experiences, to learn, teach and meet. More images and architects’ description after the break.
This proposal stands in as a way of interpreting the relationship between the environment and the city, between nature and artifice. Assuming that the artifacts created by humans transform the landscape, building or destroying objects in space, means the possibility of transforming the region where it enters the group of buildings to create places where the artifacts produced by man – the buildings – constitute an extension of nature, thus establishing a friendly relationship between buildings and open spaces. In fact, the size of an intervention like the Fecomércio complex has the power to renew, lead and qualify their immediate surroundings. Understanding the power of this idea, it is proposed that most of the spaces designed to be used by users and developers and also the local community.
