Marina do Brazil Park – One Park, Three Projects

Abstract

The article discusses and analyzes, together, the three projects developed for the contest for the Marinha do Brasil Park, in Porto Alegre (1976). The project winner specified has authorship by architects Rogério Malinsky e Ivan Mizoguchi. Other project was developed by Claudio Araújo and team and the third proposal was by Carlos M. Fayet e Jorge Debiagi. The subject investigates the role of the contest for the Marinha as a historical evidence, in which the different solutions on a common theme are able to situate the debate on the public park in the contemporary context. The focus of the matter is not the executed park, but is focused on the analytical and comparative examination of the three projective hypotheses that arise in response to the constest, to solve an architectural problem. The verification of the various proposals for the same site allows us to draw a comparative parallel between them, in order to show the breadth of the debate on the subject of urban park as a shore configurator. The article scrutinizes the concepts proposed by the participating teams, seeking to clarify how the architectural culture of the 1970s faced the urban problem of the park. The confrontation of three projects, which indicate responses to disciplinary problem still existing, the urban park, allows shifting the problem to the discussion about the park as a protagonist in the territorial conformation and as a means of claiming the landscape.