Eike Batista’s EBX has invited a handful of architects to rethink the future of the historically loaded Marina da Gloria on the shore of downtown Rio. Here’s a peek at JDS proposal for this ambitious and controversial project to host a new convention center and the sailing competition for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.
Our scheme aims at questioning the future development to avoid a strictly exclusive and fenced off structure and proposes instead to create a series of urban and landscape connections to the surrounding Flamengo Park (designed by Burle Marx), to the city, the modern art museum and to Santos Dumont airport in one clear knot, in the emblematic shape of an X.
The project will remain an accessible park for 100% of its footprint surface and allow the neighborhood to unfold and prosper as a public destination for leisure and commerce.