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Arquitectura efímera e insurgencia urbana. Estrategias de apropiación del comercio ambulante en los espacios intersticiales del BRT TransOeste, Río de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro has gone through major urban restructuration work over the last decade. Its status as host city of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games meant an important transformation process for most of the city. In this context, one of the most important infrastructural interventions made wa...

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Published in:Arquitecturas del sur 2020, Vol.38 (57), p.108-127
Main Authors: Espósito-Galarce, Fernando, Senna Pettená, Amanda
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
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Summary:Rio de Janeiro has gone through major urban restructuration work over the last decade. Its status as host city of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games meant an important transformation process for most of the city. In this context, one of the most important infrastructural interventions made was the implementation of the BRTs (Bus Rapid Transit) system. In most stations, it is possible to perceive an informal dynamic of unscheduled uses and ephemeral appropriations, using objects or devices of informal commerce that occupy the “interstices” forgotten by the system. This insurgency reclaims new possibilities for interpreting urban spaces, once they reveal their potential, offering alternative products and services in the context of daily urban mobility. The concept of “interstitiality” is proposed in order to name the “in-between”, or the gaps in the BRT system which, in practice, have diffuse limits. What sets out this interstitial dimension are those who inhabit and use the gaps, through ephemeral appropriation of the mobility infrastructure and its surroundings. This work, through fieldwork, photographic survey, a categorization of the observed behaviors and the ephemeral supports detected, complemented with a bibliographic discussion, observes those ephemeral appropriations in the interstitial spaces, mainly of the TransOeste Corridor Jardim Oceâ-nico Intermodal Station of the BRT system of Rio de Janeiro. The work concludes that the phenomenon of interstitial appropriation must be considered as part of the urban systems, because, in the contemporary city, it is that insurgent and informal ephemerality that often responds to the demands and needs of our daily lives. A cidade do Rio de Janeiro passou por importantes obras de reestruturação urbana ao longo da última década. Sua condição de cidade sede da Copa do Mundo de 2014 e das Olimpíadas de 2016 significou um importante processo transformador para grande parte da cidade. Nesse contexto, uma das intervenções infraestruturais mais im-portantes dentre as executadas foi a implementação do sistema de BRTs (Bus Rapid Transit). Na maioria das estações é possível perceber uma dinâmica informal de usos não programados e apropriações efêmeras por meio de objetos ou dispositivos de comércio informal que ocupam os “interstícios” deixados pelo sistema. Essa insurgência reivindica novas possibilidades de leitura dos espaços urbanos, uma vez que revelam suas potencialidades, oferecendo alter-nativas de serviço
ISSN:0719-6466
0716-2677