The sound of the city

Project idea

Located in the downtown of Belo Horizonte, the region comprising the Aarão Reis street are the most importante place for events and cultural manifestations, as rap batles and connect envents that happen the Rui Barbosa square, as known as Praça da Estação, to the events of Serraria Souza Pinto, private place for big events and concerts. Around 10m above the area has a view of Rui Barbosa square , to the Skyline of the central area and your urban circuit of art (CURA), they are located in the Sapucaí street. This street presents it self as the reference for gastronomy, culture and art, location of many restaurants, pubs and cultural events. Besides, the Sapucaí street also has bus stops that integrate the east region to the central área

Project description

The Hyper central zone of Belo Horizonte is a obligatory passage for those who cross the town day by day. Thousand of people converge searching for connection into the subway and the bus lines, the Central subway station has a registration around 20 thousand passengers every day. The Aarão Reis street, important passage of connection, are part of the transport system, Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) – denominated Move – wich connect the downtown to the north area and the cities near by. Located next to the Andradas avenue, wich has a huge downtown bus traffic, whom connect Leste, Oeste and Barreiro’s lines. At 500m distance is the Santos Dumont avenue, where are located the of a town stations to transfer to the Move with integration to the Belo Horizonte near by cities. The train station known by Vitória a Minas (EFVM), has two lines for the passengers, wich integrate various cities of Minas Gerais state to Cariacica, metropolitan region of Vitória-ES, passing by important cities uptown Minas Gerais, as Barão de Cocais, Governador Valadares and many others.

Technical information

Based on the analyzes and official documentation provide by the government agencies, we have developed a project that is exposed here for the diagrams, images, drawings and texts.