The main idea of this project is to provide the city of Rio de Janeiro, especially in the place where the “Olympic Park” will be implanted, with a generous and open space to the city, easily usable, articulated both with the new urban infrastructure and with the urban elements to be implanted.

Not to make autonomous objects, as comfortable as this attitude may be, but to think of them as elements of a new urban experience that presupposes dialogue and coexistence. We propose to design the whole without fragmenting the urban fabric with the idea that architecture does not subtract, separate or protect, but adds, aggregates and regenerates the space of collective existence and urbanity.

The apparent complexity of the program unravels when it is organized by space and construction, by architecture.

An extensive surface that hangs over the terrain organizes the access of the public and athletes during the games and constitutes the protagonist public space, both in the Games and Legacy modes: an elevated circulation and shading plaza, like a large marquee.

Its height allows users to enjoy the landscape and allows the installation of any sports program to be built. In this case, the elevation is significant to allow a simultaneous view of the mountains and the water, and to make possible the understanding of the territory.

The structure develops at different heights and relates to the ground level as an extension of this ground by means of gentle ramps, guaranteeing total accessibility of the complex.

The Marquee area is controlled by circular openings enabling the sporting activities of the Games as well as the Olympic Training Center to be part of everyday life and to be incorporated, like nature, as landscape. The removal of the non-permanent sports equipment allows for the creation of tree masses that will animate in Legacy mode both the level of the square and the ground level, extending the areas and shadows and equipment that lie beneath the structure.

The necessary organization of the front (F.O.H.) and back (B.O.H.) of the equipment is solved here by the distinct levels that segregate the circulation of the public and athletes. These floors should relate more fluidly in Legacy mode, but will remain strategically separated in Games mode, ensuring the operation of the Training Center.

This is an element that marks the urban landscape, organizes the territory, gives character to the set, but is undone by the serenity that marks its existence.