ALALAÔ KIOSK

Idea by

PEDRO ÉVORA

ALALAO

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil

Pedro Évora is Brazilian-Portuguese architect, professor at PUC Rio, founder of Rua Arquitetos and member of the collective Alalaô. Nominated twice for the Mies Van de Rohe Award, he was the winner of the national competition for the Olympic Golf Clubhouse for the Rio2016 games. His work has been exhibited at MoMA-NY, MAK Vienna, Carnegie Museum of Art, Chicago Biennale, Lisbon Triennale and Venice Biennale and São Paulo Biennial. Today develop cultural and art projects focused on innovation.

Call for ideas 2021

Alalaô is a gallery dedicated to Art, Architecture & Nature at Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro.

# Environment

Site-specific cases

In order to raise city's mood and join Rio de Janeiro World Capital of Architecture - UIA 2021, the group developed an innovative institution focused on architecture, art, nature and city. Inaugurated on 1st January 2021 this mix of gallery, arch hub and beach kiosk is a pioneering platform to promote exhibitions, lectures, activities and competitions: the ALALAÔ KIOSK!

Rio created its landscape, now a UNESCO heritage site. The beach (symbol of it’s culture) has always stimulated city's creative vocation. ALALAÔ KIOSK takes on the challenge of rethinking the city from its waterfront.

The project takes a traditional beach kiosk and turns inside out. Through a relaxed conceptual operation of a swiss knife, a Japanese origami and a space module to transform a 4m2 hut into an open public space, generating energy and broadcasting information real time.

Created in 2010 ALALAÔ Art Promoting Group is composed by an architect, a designer, a gallery owner, a filmmaker, and a lawyer.