Miguel Rio Branco Gallery / Arquitetos Associados

Miguel Rio Branco Gallery By Arquitetos Associados-© Leonardo Finotti-01

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Located on a sloping terrain, surrounded by forest, this pavilion redesigned the topography so that the volume of the building blends.

While defining a cantilevered structure that levitates on the ground. The entry area is defined by means of two levels with major showrooms.

Treated as a continuation of the exterior , the covered square set up a transitional space that organizes the flows, facilities houses and allows visual interaction with the basement room, located 4.5 meters below ground. By contrast, other place of exhibition pavilion is a regular, closed on the upper level defined by the volume of steel cut.

This formal element dominant , built with a steel structure that allows maximum flexibility in interior spaces, features a formal subtle distortions that allow the creation of linear skylights in the main walls.

Project Data

Project name: Miguel Rio Branco Gallery
Location: Brumadinho, MG, Brazil
Program: Gallery
Built Area: 1540m2
Project Year: 2008
Construction Year: 2008-2010
Completion Year: 2010

Award: 10th Young Architects Prize – built work category – 2nd prize |13th architecture prize of IAB-MG ex-aequo prize – built work – culture

The people

Architects: Arquitetos Associados
Project Architects: Alexandre Brasil, André Luiz Prado, Bruno Santa Cecília, Carlos Alberto Maciel, Paula Zasnicoff
Collaboration: Manoela Campolina
Text Description: © Courtesy of Arquitetos Associados
Images: © Leonardo Finotti