{"id":409,"date":"2010-09-02T10:53:58","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T10:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/?p=409"},"modified":"2010-09-02T10:53:58","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T10:53:58","slug":"how-masonry-block-can-shape-a-city-rio-de-janeiro-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/2010\/09\/how-masonry-block-can-shape-a-city-rio-de-janeiro-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"How Masonry Block Can Shape A City: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Informal\/Local\/Impromptu Materials<\/p><\/div>\n

An extremely common sight– and most often overlooked is the masonry block which seems to reproduce– sprouting and filling “in-between” spaces, patching holes, constructing walls spanning neighborhoods, class and aesthetic. After visiting Corcovado, Sugar Loaf Mountain, Copacabana Palace, and every other sensory-overloaded-tourist attraction that Rio had to offer– I take back the vision of masonry blocks, almost reproducing organically throughout the city.\u00a0 This may be because of the objective quantity of masonry block seen– but I propose the opposite. The uniqueness of each block, often used to perform a different function, in a different configuration, in a different neighborhood, by a different class does not describe most construction materials.<\/p>\n

Maybe this point is best illustrated with reference to a previous post, Project Morrinho,<\/a> the masonry blocks permeate the built environment so entirely that it is easy to represent an entire building envelope– with just one unit— maybe a more accurate representation of the constructed environment than the environment itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An extremely common sight– and most often overlooked is the masonry block which seems to reproduce– sprouting and filling “in-between” spaces, patching holes, constructing walls spanning neighborhoods, class and aesthetic. After visiting Corcovado, Sugar Loaf Mountain, Copacabana Palace, and every other sensory-overloaded-tourist attraction that Rio had to offer– I take back the vision of masonry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[24,26,47,20,48,31,23],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architecture","category-thoughts","tag-brazil","tag-critical-spatial-practices","tag-informal","tag-information-visualization","tag-materiality","tag-project-morrinho","tag-rio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}