The building designed by Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid on Atlantic Avenue in Copacabana is her first project in Brazil and South America.
The condominium building includes 30 luxury apartments on eleven floors, a rooftop swimming pool, a cinema and a spa. Zaha Hadid has developed a building, for a height of 41.5 metres, with a skeletal facade where each storey resembles a horizontal vertebra.
“I left absolutely free to create,” says the businessman Omar Peres, the project owner. The works begin in March, with the presence of Zaha, who had to modify the original design to meet the urban parameters from the waterfront.
“Casa Atlântica’s design continues the liberating formal composition and spatial flow inherent within Brazil’s rich Modernist tradition and engages with the unique tempo and vitality of Copacabana’s urban beach culture, as well as the fluidity of its renowned Burle Marx promenade,” said the studio in a statement.
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects
Design: Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher
Project Director & Designer: Saffet Kaya Bekiroglu
Project Team: Clara Martins, Armando Bussey Chien-Shuo Father, Natassa Lianou
Year: 2014
Client: Omar Peres
Casa Atlântica by Zaha Hadid Architects
