Pedro Barata e Arquitetos Associados
SUPERISCOPE
Pedro Barata e Arquitetos Associados
15. September 2015
Photos: Osvaldo Castro & Fábio Cansado, courtesy of Pedro Barata
SUPERISCOPE, the world's biggest periscope: If we rotate it to vertical, a container is like an urban scale ready-made periscope.
By providing it with the two mirrors that activate the system, our proposal aims for a simultaneously global and local contribution: global, as it provides the recent history of container’s creative recycling with a new chapter; local, as it allows the public inside the plot to see, above all the city buildings, the Lagoon after which the city is named, through the new periscope-container, the SUPERISCOPE.
PROJECT CREDITS
Location
Lagoa Santa, Brazil
Event
Container Architecture Event
Date
2015
Architect
Pedro Barata e Arquitetos Associados
Construction
Apex
Area
9 m2
Photography
Osvaldo Castro, Fábio Cansado