Rio 2016 Bid - Copacabana Cluster

The practice was responsible for the preliminary studies (architecture and landscape design) of most of the new venues and facilities to be built for the Olympic Games, working closely with the Rio 2016 Organizing Committee team and its international consultants EKS/JBD (responsible for the Games Overlay and Operational Planning), in accordance with their briefings and pre-requisites. BCMF acted as the lead designer of 17 new venues and facilities, as well as the complementation of 3 existing ones, located mainly in the Barra da Tijuca and Deodoro clusters — where the architects had previously designed the Deodoro Sports Complex for the Rio 2007 Pan-American Games. In addition, the practice also provided design support to the Rio 2016 team in the development of temporary structures and was responsible for producing most of the imagery for the Olympic Dossier. As pre-defined by the COB (Brazilian Olympic Committee), the facilities for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games were grouped into four major and distinct areas of the city, interconnected by an efficient transportation system: Barra da Tijuca, Copacabana, Maracanã, and Deodoro. This strategy was intended to distribute the direct and indirect benefits of the Games among all the inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro, through the construction of new facilities and infrastructure, as well as improvements to the existing network. While the Copacabana cluster would primarily host temporary structures, the Maracanã and Deodoro clusters would have their existing venues complemented, and Barra da Tijuca would concentrate the majority of the new venues and facilities to be built or adapted.