THE CONTEST
RECONVEXO is a contest of ideas for the reuse of the remaining staves of the expansion works of the Rio de Janeiro Subway.
There are more than 6,000 staves originally intended to the execution of the connecting tunnel between Line 4 and Gavea Station.
This stretch should have been inaugurated with the other stretches executed for the Olympic Games Rio2016. Presently, due to the state financial crisis, there is no forecast for its execution. It is therefore a huge amount of pre-cast concrete parts with no certain destination.
Reinterpret their possible uses, redefine their meaning: this is the intent of the RECONVEXO Contest.
INTRODUCTION
A major and complex event, seen as a significant opportunity to attract investments and accelerate the allocation of internal resources, Rio2016 Olympic Games leveraged transformations in Rio de Janeiro.
With resources of approximately R$ 30 billion coming from federal, state and municipal spheres, and from public-private partnerships, the city has gone from the relative stagnation of the decades before to a massive process of urban reformulation.
Considering that the main legacy of the Rio2016 Olympic Games is not properly the construction of sports equipment, and that these, like other structures, should not suffer the side effects of ostracism and underutilization, would the Games have contributed effectively to the implementation of a medium or long-term Urban Policy?
Have we expanded the city infrastructure towards the right direction?
Were the Games effectively catalysts to a fairer city?
In the end, who were the main beneficiaries?
Intangible Legacy
Legacy: complex word, ambiguous, possibly controversial.
As from start, legacy is something that should not be understood only regarding the tangible field, of concrete works. There is also an intangible field legacy.
We must ask ourselves: To what extent the total opacity of the decision making process of the construction of the Games is not part of our legacy?
Did the urgency of the process of urban transformation for the Games reinforce the difficulty of collective coordination of Cariocas, their historically little mobilization for urban solutions?
To what extent the reiteration of our difficulty in self-examination of the city is part of the legacy of the Games?
Unpredicted Legacy
Although always present, the Olympic legacy was not always positive. On the contrary, it often boils down to idle structures in financially ruined cities.
Object of this contest, the 6,784 unused precast concrete pieces are an emblem of the unpredicted legacy of the Rio2016 Olympic Games. They represent the remaining parts, the margin of error of this transformation process, the waste, the erratic urban planning.
The RECONVEXO contest summons a reflection on the real needs of the city of Rio de Janeiro, through the elaboration of imaginative, critical and poetic proposals for the use of these pieces.
The staves
Structuring parts of the tunnel made by the Tunnel Boring Machine [TBM], popularly known as "Tatuzão", each set of 8 staves composes a ring of tunnel structure.
Each ring has 4 pieces:
- [5x] Type “A” pieces, regular external dimensions with 0.4m x 1.84m x 4.77m compose the main part of the ring.
- [1x] "B" piece and [1x] "C" piece, both with external trapezoidal format with 0.4m x 1.84m x 5.02m [variable], to facilitate the fitting of the last piece - "K".
- [1x] "K" piece, with external trapezoidal format with 0.4m x 1.84m x 1.58m [variable] acting as a ring closing wedge.
Once coupled, the pieces form a ring with a 11,13m radius.
The manufacturing process used metal forms supplied by the manufacturer of TBM [Herrenknecht Tunneling Systems, Germany] filled with fiber reinforced concrete, going through to thermal steam cure for 6 hours, and stored for at least 28 days.
After storage, the staves are driven to the entrance well of the tunnel, where they are installed by the "Tatuzão".
SELECTION CRITERIA
Tenders must:
- Interpret the meaning of the Olympic legacy, that is, question how specific public investments can improve the city and the ways in which its inhabitants relate to them
- Promote the appreciation of the urban space and greater equity in the population's access to it
- Make the most of all available material
- Use the staves within the municipality of Rio de Janeiro
Comments
- There are no restrictions of any kind on the use and on the way the parts will be used
- Use the PDF files attached to this edictal as a basis for staves’ modeling and drawing
- Despite being a brainstorm and as such not being tied to technical feasibility studies, we expect that the proposals will be based on good structural sense
PARTICIPANTS
ELIGIBLE:
Students and teams of University students of Architecture, Fine Arts, Engineering, Design, or any other courses interested in the subject matter.
Newly-graduated students with less than a year from graduation
NON-ELIGIBLE:
Students who work, are professionally associated or who have direct family ties with the organizing members of the contest or with the jury.
Each team can count on the participation of a teacher.
REGISTRATION
Registration is made by sending the Identification Card, available in the annex of this edictal, and the payment of the registration fee. Instructions for payment of the application fee are detailed below.
Each registered team can send only one proposal.
In case of participation by teams, the Identification Card must mention the person responsible for the registration.
There is no limit for team members.
Participants may not take part in more than one team.
The contest registration fee for each team is of R$ 50.00 [BRL].
Payment of the registration fee shall be made by credit card [Visa or Mastercard] using the following link:
http://sgu.net.br/event/RECONVEXO_PUC
In order to access the payment page you need to create a "login". Once on the contest page, you must proceed to "registration".
Payment must be made by the person responsible for the registration, as mentioned in the Identification Form.
The Identification Form must be sent to: reconvexo.puc@gmail.com
Upon receipt of the Identification Card and the bank confirmation of the payment of the registration fee, the contest organization will send an email confirming the registration to the electronic address of the person responsible for the registration. In this email, the Identification Number of the team shall be informed, which will be the only identification number of the work before the jury. Only this Confirmation E-Mail guarantees the completion of the registration and, consequently, the acceptance of the team proposal.
Note: At least 20 teams must be registered to cover the costs of the Contest. If the number of registrations does not reach this estimate, the value of the inscriptions will be refunded to the subscribers, duly deducted by the bank fees, if any.
QUESTIONS
Questions regarding this edictal should be sent to reconvexo.puc@gmail.com.
All doubts will be answered by May 12th, 2017.
SELECTION
The works will be analyzed anonymously by the Jury, only through the identification number.
According to the Jury’s opinion, suitable Honorable Mentions will be selected.
The Jury is sovereign and there are no appeals to its decision.
COMPOSITION OF THE JURY
Lisette Lagnado
Director of the Visual Arts School of Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, EAV. Master in Social Communication by Universidade Católica de São Paulo and PhD in Philosophy by Universidade de São Paulo. General curator of the exhibition Desvios de la deriva. Experiencias, travesías y morfologías in the Museu Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia [Madrid] in 2010, of the 27th Biennial of Art of São Paulo [2006] and of the Iberê Camargo exhibition [1914-1994] at the Mercosul Biennial of 1999. She was also responsible for cataloging the work of the artist Leonilson [1957-1993].
Maria Alice Rezende Carvalho
Professor of the Department of Social Sciences of PUC-Rio and Researcher of CNPq [since 2005]. She coordinated the Post-Graduation Program in Social Sciences of PUC-Rio in 2011 and 2012, and coordinates the CENTRAL - Núcleo de Estudos e Projetos da Cidade of the Center of Social Sciences of that university. She holds a degree in History from PUC-Rio [1975], a Master's degree by Universidade Estadual de Campinas [1983], and a PhD in Sociology by IUPERJ [1997], where she has been a Full Professor [Sociology] since 1993. She is the author [or co-author] of 9 Books, and two of them received awards. She is a member of the Conselho de Editores Científicos da Revista Ciência Hoje, and has been a member of the Conselho de Informações Estratégicas do Instituto Municipal de Urbanismo Pereira Passos - IPP since 2009.
Marta Moreira
Architect and Urbanist at FAU / USP - Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo, 1987. Professor at Escola da Cidade, São Paulo since 2001. Partner, along with Fernando de Mello Franco and Milton Braga, of the MMBB architecture office . Professor at the Escola da Cidade, São Paulo, since 2001. Visiting Professor at the Facultad Arquitectura y Diseño de la Universidad Finis Terrae, Santiago, Chile, 2013. Professor at Universidade Braz Cubas, Mogi da Cruzes, 1992-1995. Vice-president of the Associação de Ensino Escola da Cidade.
Milton Machado
Artist in fine arts, archit/UFRJ, master in Urban Planning, IPPUr/UFRJ, 1985 and Visual Arts PhD, PhD in Fine Arts, Goldsmiths College University of London, 2000. Associate Professor, Department of History and Theory of Art and History, University of London. PPGAV-Graduate Program in Visual Arts, School of Fine Arts EBA / UFRJ with several texts published in books, magazines, newspapers and websites. Silver Medal at the 10th International Biennial of São Paulo, in 1969, at the International Competition of Architecture Schools. Since 1970, he has participated in several individual and collective exhibitions in Brazil and abroad. He was professor of the Centro de Arquitetura e Artes da Universidade Santa Úrsula, and of the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage.
Otavio Leonidio
Architect and Urbanist [1994] with Doctorate in History [2005]. Professor of Architecture and Urbanism and History and Theory of Art [in the Doctoral Program]. Former Coordinator of the Architecture and Urbanism Course of PUC-Rio [2005-2008], member of the Board of Jurors and of the Superior Council of the Instituto de Arquitetos do Brasil do Rio de Janeiro / IAB-RJ [2010-until now]; Co-founder of the Lucio Costa Foundation; Author of "Carradas de Razões: Lucio Costa e Arquitetura Moderna Brasileira" [2007], and co-author of "Um Modo de Ser Moderno: Lucio Costa e a Crítica Contemporânea" [2004]; Visiting Scholar at Stanford University's Department of Comparative Literature [Jan-Dec 2013], currently working on a book on American avant-garde art in the 1960s and early 1970s.
Pedro Strozenberg
Bachelor in Law. Associate Researcher at the Instituto de Estudos da Religião [Iser]. He was the founder and coordinator of the Balcão de Direitos - Rights Desk, a project for access to justice and conflict mediation that worked in Rio de Janeiro for 15 years and in 17 other states throughout Brazil. He was a member of the National Youth Council and the National Public Security Council; At the state level, of the Committee against Torture and the State Council on Human Rights and Public Security. Between April of 2010 and January of 2011 he took on as assistant secretary of Human Rights of the State of Rio de Janeiro; Was also coordinator of the Human Rights Commission of the Legislative Assembly between 2007 and 2008.
AWARDS
1st place: R$ 1,500,00 [BRL]
Honorable mentions as judged by the jury.
The prize will be sent via bank transfer to the selected team. Possible bank charges for this transaction will be deducted from the total.
Diplomas will be issued to the winner and to the honorable mentions designated by the Jury.
The selected papers will be sent for publication in the Digital Magazine of the Centro de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da PUC-Rio – PRUMO.
The awarded works will be sent to various architectural sites to publicize the results of the contest.
PRESENTATION
The works must be sent in digital format to the organization of the contest by email reconvexo.puc@gmail.com, until 24:00 on May 26, 2017.
The receipt of the material will be confirmed by the organization via email response.
The submitted graphic material must contain the proposal duly identified through the registration number.
Proposals must be presented in a maximum of two boards, in A1 format to be printed by the organization, and for consideration by the Jury.
- The two A1 boards must be sent in PDF format as an attachment to a single email. In addition, the two files uploaded must not exceed 10Mb
- The Work Submission Sheet shall be sent with the graphic material. The information contained in this sheet will be used as basic material for divulging or publicizing the work.
- Teams with graphic material identified besides the Entry Number will be eliminated from the selection of the jury.
COMPETITION SCHEDULE:
REGISTRATION DEADLINE
May 19TH, 2017
WORK DELIVERY DEADLINE
May 26TH, 2017
JUDGMENT
Jun 1ST, 2017
DISCLOSURE OF THE RESULTS
Jun 2ND, 2017