The project for the Macro inter-modal Terminal in the middle of Rio de Janeiro by Lucas Ramos, Priscila Bellas, and Thiago De Almeida seeks to create a new infrastructure to the city, which will create possibilities to transform an important axis of the city that nowadays is extremely undervalued and ignored into a new business center based in an efficient nodal point of different kinds of transport. In doing so, they chose to build a megastructure that possessed the ability to reorganize the different transport networks and their links with the city. More images and architects’ description after the break.
New subway lines, the high-speed train Rio-Sao Paulo, tramways, new ferries… When thinking of better transportation and mobility conditions, undoubtedly these are keywords when evaluating guidelines for the development of the city of Rio de Janeiro. Situated near Rio de Janeiro’s downtown, Francisco Bicalho Avenue has the biggest bus terminal of the city, called Novo Rio. Soon, this avenue will also be the home of the future high-speed train RJ-SP and probably of the new ferries. Evidently, this is already an important axis of the city, besides its located conveniently on one of the main highway in Rio and bordered by the Mange channel. However, despite its metropolitan importance, this region of the city is extremely undervalued and ignored.
