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Architects: André Jost Mafra, Natasha Mendes Gabriel, Thaís Polydoro Ribeiro
- Year: 2012
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Photographs:Joana França
Text description provided by the architects. The Plinio Marcos School of Art and Popular Culture houses the activities of the Art Institute in Dike, an NGO active since 2002 in the Town Dyke Gilda Santos in the Northwest Zone, an area with about 22 000 inhabitants living in precarious conditions, with most houses on stilts on the edge of the swamp.
The project is a reference to this area of the city, making it an important cultural center for the promotion of shows, concerts, events, workshops, and technical training, fostering popular culture, creativity, entrepreneurship, and community sustainability.
With 690m2 of built area, the first stage of the project is the Cultural Warehouse, which houses the vital functions of the Institute in the area of administration, services, workshops and production studio, multimedia room, terrace, courtyard and a multipurpose room.
A multipurpose room with capacity for 100 people was designed to house events, cultural shows and movies with adaptive lighting and scenic design for every occasion. Events can be opened to the courtyard for outdoor concerts and performances.
The media space is another attraction of the project, the Gilberto Gil Cyberspace, a memorial to the godfather of the Institute, along with a collection of music and videos from Brazilian popular culture.
In the second stage, the project includes expanding the areas of workshops, reading room, bar-cafeteria, shop and exhibition area with a collection from the writer and playwright Plinio Marcos.
