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The Olympic fireball summarizes the joy found resulted of our effort. This figure of speech inspired the creation of this small shopping center connected to the athletes’ village planned for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

This venture will represent the top space of socialization in the Olympic Village designed to be transformed into a fashionable private residential neighborhood after the games. The highlight for the fireball emphasizes the great intangible legacy: human relationships.

Friction Between Stones, dynamic displacement between rocks, was an important reference image to the creation of this project: a regional mall set in an deactivated quarry.

The urban and environmental requalification represents the major legacy of this project located in Nova Iguaçu, a highly populated city, suburb of Rio de Janeiro.

The floating aquatic plants perform the transposition of three elements of nature: earth, water and air. This sophisticated movement was transferred to the design of this exclusive mall. Legal limitations determined the flat shape of this project, a challenge transformed into its biggest differential: the total connection between lake and architecture through all scales, including the delicate size of a floating aquatic plant.

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The Matsuri Harvest Feast, ancient ritual of thanksgiving for good results of crops, was the key of inspiration to architectural interconnection between a new shopping mall and the old historical agricultural shed of Japanese immigrants’ cooperative.

The legal restrictions related to the preservation of the historic shed and the red carp fish; gift from the Emperor of Japan during his official visit to this cooperative, make this project an iconic reference of Japanese immigration in Brazil.