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Google recently launched a new platform “Rio: Beyond the Map,” showing Rio’s favelas using 360º videos. The tool also includes panoramas more than three thousand images and historical exhibitions of Rio de Janeiro. The project integrates Google Arts & Culture, which brings art collections from around the world.

The series of videos available on the platform features stories of the residents of the communities in Portuguese and English. Among the highlights of photographic archives, there are interactive tours of Cristo Redentor (Christ the Redeemer) and visits to Pier Mauá (Mauá pier).

The project aims to show the little-known side of these informal communities, home to 1.4 million Cariocas. “Slums are not simply a place, they are a community, and to understand them, you need to enter and see it for yourself,” says the video as an introduction to the project offering a real immersion in this reality. 

Google also announced the update of the Olympic Park in Google Maps with over 3,000 new commercial establishments including interior views of hotels, restaurants, and bars in Rio de Janeiro. “This will be the most digital Olympics in history, for our part, we will have information on all of the events, before and after, including integrated video searches” said Google spokesman. In addition, Google will provide the official Youtube videos of the best moments of the games in 60 different countries.

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Courtesy of Gbau

• Architects: Gbau
• Location: 74570 Thorens-Glières, France
• Area: 710.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: Courtesy of Gbau, Emmanuelle Blanc , Beatrice Cafieri , Courtesy of Maire de Thorens Glieres

• Structural Engineering: Giraldon Ingénierie
• Fluids Engineers: Bureau Nicolas
• Economy And Project Coordination: eic2
• Acoustic: res’on
• Paysage: Apu atelier de Paysage et d’urbanisme

© Emmanuelle Blanc

From the architect. The town of thorens-glières wished to renovate the presbytery building dating back to the middle of the 19th century with a view to housing a medical center and small lodging for the parish priest. It also wanted to have a reception hall for the pilgrims who regularly come to venerate the theologist Saint François de sales, born in the château of the same name, very near the town and made a bishop in 1602 in the adjoining church, unfortunately rebuilt at the end of the 19th century.

Courtesy of Gbau

Courtesy of Gbau

The first goal of the project was to restore the house and garden pair constituting a rural subsistence economy, typical of grouped housing village planning. The old jardin de curé (small enclosed garden) redesigned to match its former size was enclosed by a thick outer wall creating a sanctuary. The garden section was positioned at the foot of the old building as the folded down apron of its façade.

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Plan 1

© Emmanuelle Blanc

This composition develops the interiority and withdrawal associated with a sunken enclosed garden, protected from the bustle of the street. It seeks to diminish the volume of the pilgrim’s hall, a structure completely overlooking the garden and part of the wall, creating a sort of cavity at its triangular point. The second goal was to make the shape invisible from the road.

© Emmanuelle Blanc

The intervention in the old presbytery cultivates an affection for ‘‘the natural state of things’’ well-ordered rooms and a plan linking them, materials and surfaces altered or painted, inclusion of new features in the palimpsest of the past. 

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Section

The third goal was to reject the picturesque, or, conversely, vivid and ostentatious contemporary surroundings, obtaining a middle ground in the mixture of techniques and non-invasive materials: engineering materials, no-fines concrete aggregating a lean concrete and a river washed aggregate, renderings and lime wash, preservation of wood flooring by hea upturned beam reinforcement in the joist work and implemented in thickness of the old structure.

Courtesy of Maire de Thorens Glieres

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