Project implementation: Brazil
Project development: Brazil
On a planet confronting its limits in the face of extreme climate events, architecture and urban planning are called upon to profoundly rethink their role. More than reflection, it's necessary to develop radical proposals and concrete solutions. It is on this frontier that the city of Rio de Janeiro stands as a living laboratory forging the foundations of a new pact between urban and natural—where citizenship intertwines with the preservation and integration of nature into the urban fabric.
Rio de Janeiro's participation in the 14th Biennale is a celebration of the dialogue between the urban and the natural, resulting in unique and inclusive urban solutions, paving the way for a contemporary Carioca urban tradition. The city presents a portfolio of interventions that translate the Biennale's curatorial axes into reality, demonstrating that it is possible to reconcile climate resilience with social justice. In a multifaceted strategy, Rio continues its mission to reinstate itself as a forest city through urban reforestation manifested at various scales, from the vitality of community gardens and productive backyards to the grandeur of urban parks and the reconnection with its forests.
Extensive, topographically dramatic, and socially diverse, Rio de Janeiro—a world city—embodies the central dilemma of our century: orchestrating a just socio-ecological transition amidst insurmountable complexities. Its complexity, inherent to an urban center of global importance, amplifies tensions and potentialities, demanding operations at multiple scales—from macro to micro—under the imperative of integrating social justice, urban planning, and climate action.
Rio de Janeiro, therefore, is not coming to the Biennial simply to showcase projects, but to share an urban management model that understands the city as an integrated ecosystem. We present a set of solutions that emerge from the urban soil of the city and also from the humid soil of the forest, in the firm conviction that the architecture we need for the future is already being built today, on the hillsides, in the floodplains, and on the asphalt of the state capital.