The World Cup Games in Rio forced an estimated 250,000 people to leave their homes to welcome and make way to millions of football lovers from all over the world. Following the end of the games, dozens of huge stadiums were left empty and unused – leading two architects to come up with a brilliant innovative and creative idea to re-home Cariocas.
As part of their projects ‘1 Week 1 Project’, French architects Axel de Scampa and Sylvain Macaux have thought outside the box and came up with a potential amazing, yet rather challenging idea to solve the problem of thousands of homeless Brazilians.
Dubbed ‘Casa Futebol’, the project covers 12 stadiums and ambitiously aims to replace some of those stadiums’ rows of seating into low-cost housing. Aware of the strong football culture in Brazil, the French duo’s proposal would only see the targeted stadiums altered slightly, and matches would still be played as per usual in those locations.
De Scampa and Macaux believe that, once converted, each stadium could be home to between 1,500 and 2,000 people and a total of approximately 20,000 people over the entire project. On their website, they explain: The project “Casa Futebol” proposes a reappropriation of the stadiums renovated or built for the World Cup using modules of housing of a surface of 105 m². It is not a question of denying the interest of Brazilians people for the soccer, otherwise of proposing an alternative in the deficit of housing. Stadiums will continue to be used, receiving soccer matches, a part of the ganancies of which can finance the construction and the maintenance of the houses.
To be continued…
Source: http://www.1week1project.org/en/2014/07/06/casa-futebol/