Architectural Competition | Castro Alves Theatre | Salvador da Bahia | Brazil | Apiacas Arquitectos

The advantage of the project seeks not only to preserve the architectural heritage, but also preserve the Intangible Heritage created around the ACT, that the site is already consolidated as an area of ​​great cultural importance for the city of Salvador. The Readjustment of the existing building is intended to arrange the spaces through a new distribution to optimize the constructed area, organizing the programs and the circulations, to ensure hierarchy and dimensions consistent with the public nature or technical programs. So the project enhances the clearance under the audience, expanding its space and creating a spatial continuity into the valley, giving meaning to their geometry of the pit building..........more

Architectural Design Competition | Hotel Paineiras | Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | Apiacas Arquitectos

A rectangular prism embedded in the ground according to a new foundation, against pre-existing topography, allowing the very slope of the Painswick Road allows access to each floor of the garage in order to minimize the use of ramps for cars. This structure - sometimes buried, sometimes down - allows the creation of a space quota 751.20 for the transfer of passengers, creating the need to control access to the Corcovado Road. Positioned on elevation 760.20, the coverage takes the level of the ground floor of the hotel as a reference, creating an open but protected, able to accommodate the trade, public toilets, access to the box office and train station........more