2nd place national architecture competition
The Cultural Center for Events and Exhibitions of Cabo Frio has taken the form of a sculpted landscape that respects the residential scale of the place and creates an essentially public urbanized square (which will host medium-sized events, with the possibility of using temporary coverings) as an extension of the urban public space. The implementation of the CCEE sought a subtle way to configure a new public and collective space without, however, altering it into a private commercial structure.
The program was organized, configuring the square, into two perpendicular volumes designed from the launch of main circulation axes, highlighted as wooden decks separate from the square design. The first and most important of these decks, aligned with one of the residential streets, connects the Avenue to the Araruama Lagoon, crossing the terrain and a 35-meter clear span below a suspended metal building, located in front of the site, parallel to the Avenue, housing the exhibition space for 1,500 people. Perpendicular to the pavilion, another building for conventions was implanted, with the auditorium as the main element highlighted in the landscape, and its stage opens to the deck and the square, allowing its use for external and open events.
The large circulation deck connects the main public transportation points: the Avenue and the Lagoon, which will eventually provide water transportation, indicating the intention of having the CCEE open to the city. The other axes, in turn, connect to the large wooden deck perpendicularly, allowing for transversal flows. One deck enables circulation flows more focused on the functioning of the CCEE, while the other proposes a bucolic route along the edge of the Lagoon. The idea of this deck, specifically, despite adhering to the property line, could extend indefinitely, creating a kind of "boardwalk project" that could, for example, lead users to the Dormitório das Garças Park.
