| zerOgroup/Unique won the competition for the ‘Praça do Natal’ in Natal, Brazil. ‘Natal’ meaning ‘Christmas’ in Portuguese, the city launched a competition to develop a square dedicated to Christmas as a tourist spot.
Rather than letting 33% of the existing square inaccessible with the setting up of the tallest Christmas tree of Brazil (current), this proposal aims to leave 100% of the square accessible all year long, while proposing a structural icon to support the tallest Christmas tree in the world.
The iconic support is curved in order to maximize the public space’s use, while its skin’s being dematerialized at the top to minimize the impact of the monument on the surroundings.
Lifting up the base of the ‘tree’, the project creates a shaded area connecting social/leisure functions of the public space. The artificial landscape is a reference to Natal’s landscape: the dunes.
Team: Laurent Troost, Eduardo Flôrencio, Ivvy Quintella |
