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FOUDATION A+U is an office of research and experimentation in architecture and urban planning that involves students and professionals from various fields of study and interest and which are organized and often change dynamically in nomadic groups in research, projects and competitions of architecture, town planning and other contemporary issues

Tuesday 9 September 2008

plataforma 21 . salvador of bahia . brazil



the new arts gallery at the old fatbrás factory
salvador of bahia . quartier plataforma . brazil
client: michel esteban + nouvellesvaguesfestival.org

The Institute Nouvelles Vagues open its doors in the second half of 2009 in the neighborhood of the Platform in the city of Salvador-Bahia, Brazil. It is a cultural area, breeding, production and exhibition built in a field of 40 000 m2 in the Bay of All Saints.

It brings together more than 3000 m2, galleries, artists workshops for residents, a recording studio, multipurpose spaces for events (exhibitions, parades, seminars for companies), Studio of Photography and Video, guest house, canteen, bar, library, office projection, offices…

Also a hotel, an SPA, a room for gymnastics and sports equipment, a restaurant, a business connected to the culture, ecology, trade and sustainable development will be integrated.

Open for the world, the NVI receive resident artists of all nationalities and different areas: music, visual arts, fashion, designer, photography, architecture, dance…

The NVI receive intemédio by neighborhood associations, the Association Platform 21, a home for children, through workshops and training of language.

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winner of the competition national project of architecture and urban planning areas for structuring the suburb rail savior of bahia . brazil . 1999-2000 . architects: andré lissonger and ariadne moraes