The project for the new Arena BSB Sports and Leisure Complex is based on the recognition of the exceptional scale and spatial power of the Mané Garrincha National Stadium and seeks to emphasize its status as the symbolic protagonist of the complex. In this sense, the aim was to work with the new elements built in the context of the landscape rather than the building. This strategy allows the set of new spaces to achieve a monumentality of its own, which is reinforced, by contrast, by the presence of the stadium.
By presenting itself to the city as a landscape, the complex articulates the metropolitan scale of the monumental axis with the more everyday scale in the northern part of the perimeter, without creating front and back relations.
