Residual spaces between architecture and infrastructure. The Complexo do Alemão cable car

Abstract

After almost four years since the end of Rio 2016 Olympic Games, it is possible to observe with a critical distance the effects of some of the interventions promoted by the government to reply the mega-events. In some areas, mainly in favelas, these effects have been profound, and the answers of the government have been inattentive to the adjustment processes between the life in the neighborhoods and the infrastructural scale. This process of adjustment has shown a space residuality between the different scales of the intervening territory. This paper is focused on the study of these tensions, in spaces in which not planned uses and appropriations arose, a feature of the mismatch between the infrastructure scale and the architectural scale. Methodologically, the works with field research and comparative observations made between 2013 and 2019. The results were analyzed using three concepts: Residuality, infrastructure and the space-affective component of appropriation. These spaces gain meaning when, as an inhabited space, they are modified by the dynamics of use and appropriation of the population.