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Extreme area of intervention, in the Southeastern direction,
the situation is established by the vector created by the railroad branch and
the vast parallel area of sheds, used in general for deposit of merchandises drained
by railway. To the long of the access to Móoca Station, a parallelepiped
street, there are old abandoned railroad sheds, keeping still the façades,
sidewalls and metallic structures that supported the roof, today disappeared.
A wide narrow channel in the floor, with tracks, indicates that the train compositions
entered there for load and dump. An architectural skeleton, entirely open, evoking
the organization given before to that extensive terrain, integrated to the railway.
The intervention that Ângelo Venosa proposes intends, through the insertion
of hundreds of metallic spheres, hanging in the covering structure to a certain
distance from the floor, to produce another geometry. The suspended spheres, puncturing
the space, conform new plans that follow or intersect the plans established by
the floor and the old roof. More: they use to advantage the transparency of the
open structure to project themselves outside, sending to a much bigger extension,
the cut in the urban fabric created by the railroad branches.
When walking, the observer will see, according to its position in space, the
spheres realigning permanently, forming new plans, in other directions. The structure
liquefies, escaping to all sides. The space gains new dynamics, that does not
obey anymore the compartmentalization of the old industrial and railroad use.
A variable geometry, rearticulating itself all the time, endowed with infinite
points of escape.
The project operates, in first instance, on the perception of the construction,
questioning the relations of proximity and distance, of neighborhood, that exists
between its elements. The distance between the constructive elements is a basic
component of a construction. The gate and the windows are separate. Floor and
ceiling are apart. Walls divide and stairs, when connecting the floors, mark the
distance between them. The experience of distance is essential to the construction.
Therefore, when introducing new plans between the existing ones, the operation
carried through by Venosa is inscribing other distances inside those: a spacing.
Other relations of proximity, other measures, within those established by function
and habit. The spacing produces a site of potential plurality, where new articulations
and experiences can occur.
More: the intervention also works against one of the basic aspects of the area
spatial structure: the axle, traced by the railroad branch. Here, also because
the increasing obsolescence of the railroad carrier, the axle does not assure
anymore any articulation between the different parts of the east region and the
city. It renounces the control over the territory, consisting now of parts that
articulate themselves in a random and fluid mode, always threatened of dispersion.
The intervention - establishing relations between the station, the industrial
complexes and the expressways implanted in the immediacy - liberates the area
from its dependence to the train line, setting a multifaceted and complex space,
formed by innumerable and variable interfaces. Suggesting another spatial organization,
tensioned and dynamic, of that area structuralized by the railroad. It occupies
the space in a swirl-movement, transforming the situation into a passage and rearticulating
zone, capable to receive permanent resetting and changes of direction.
The Móoca Station is changed into an interval. Spacing endowed with
lines of continuous variation, in contraposition to the railroad mechanics: mode
which the fluid occupies the space. Hiatus in the urban narrative, interruption
of its historical continuous, this intermediate space redesigns the map of the
area through the reconnection of its different urban elements.
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