Typological Urbanism - Projective Cities (Architectural Design)_2-4.pdf

One of the pelling aspects of the project,2 despite the city still today being be carpeted with grass and shrubs
pilot plan for Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, commonly identifi ed with the buildings and foliage will screen the internal
inaugurated 50 years ago after three years masterly designed by Oscar Niemeyer along grouping of the superblock from the
of hasty construction, is the single unifi ed its monumental axis. spectator: who will get a view of the
manner in which it tackled both architecture Costa’petition report, the layout through a haze of greenery.
and the city. In his proposal for the Plano Memória descritiva do Plano piloto, was, This will have the two-fold advantage
piloto (pilot plan), Lucio Costa (1902–98) – not mistakenly, immediately recognised of guaranteeing orderly planning, even
the winning architect of the 1957 national by petition’s jury as the most when the density, category, pattern
competition to design the new capital extraordinary part of his submission. In the or architectural standard of individual
for Brazil – quite consciously deployed text, his single solution to the residential buildings are of a different quality;
architecture and urbanism in order to defi ne problem calls for a continuous sequence and, at the same time, it will provide
a specifi c idea of the urban realm. Through a of large blocks set in double or single the inhabitants with shady avenues
text (petition report), a few sketches, lines along both sides of the residential down which to stroll at leisure, in
and a drawing of the plan of the city, the highway axis, each surrounded by bands addition to the open spaces planned
architect was able to clearly describe at once of greenery planted with The city’s for their use in the internal pattern of
all that was necessary to initiate and control residential system would not be formed by the
the development of a city that a few years the linear disposition of urban bloc