Is an architect-urbanist based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Born in Rosario, Argentina in 1948 He graduated from the National University of Rosario, Argentina, as architect, and at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro as architect-urbanist. He has been researching and working with the socio-spatial division between Rio’s favelas and the rest of the city since the 1990s. FIRM Jorge Mario Jáuregui Architects (JMJA) are based in Rio de Janeiro working on public interest projects, in both the 'formal' and 'informal' areas of the city and are best known for their project on the upgrading of Rio's favelas and their integration with the rest of the city. Under Brazil's military dictatorship of the 1970s favelas were demolished and their residents displaced. Since then there have been attempts at upgrading but these have been piecemeal with no clear strategy. In 1994 following Cesar Maia's election as mayor of Rio, the city established a nine year program called Favela-Bairro, which is the largest squatter settlement upgrading program in Latin America. JMJA won an open competition to lead the project and in contrast to earlier strategies they advocated a holistic approach to the favelas that builds on the existing and addresses the physical, social and economic aspects. WORKS(a few amongst many)
The Favela-Bairro Project
Rambla de Manguinhos project The Favela-Bairro Project This program which was established by the city government with the support of from inter American development bank ,was directed by architect Jorge Mario Jáuregui MAIN IDEA OF THE PROJECT
Providing community laundry and day care centers .
Meeting place for elders . Paving streets and building stairways Erecting sport complex. Creating an infrastructure to support sanitary services such us drop of points for garbage's that could reached by carts Rambla de Manguinhos project The Zona Norte is home to some of Rio’s poorest, most degraded neighborhoods; there, you’ll find that the notion of the broken city really makes sense. He is working on a project, Rambla de Manguinhos, that is looking to reestablish connections between two adjacent entities that have been living in a state of isolation for many years, separated from each other by a strip of no man’s land (clustered around a suburban train line) that was literally called the Gaza Strip – that’s how dangerous it was. Main aim of the project
To enhance the connectivity of the urban structure as a whole while
discouraging the broken city perpetuation, the lack of urbanity, particularly but not solely in the poor areas To democratize the enjoyment of urbanity, making it accessible to all the citizens To guarantee the accessibility of each place and enhance its connections with the surroundings taking the areas from isolation To do not remove anybody from their place in order not to break existing ties (except for he areas of risk or in cases where it is necessary to create clearings to permit conviviality) Cont.
To open clearings in the existing fabric introducing spaces and edifications as
urban and environmental re-qualifiers with legibility and pertinence To respect the history of the development of each place as well as the investments made by ach dweller with their own effort To give opportunity to new centralities and potentialize the exiting ones by increasing their connectivity To produce a drastic change in the image of the area, allowing its re- subjectivation To produce cohesion articulating heterogeneous logics, stitching the city without flattening it in homogeneity, searching for the coexistence of the city of fluxes with the city of places Before the project After the project 1- Street Upgrade and reconfiguration 2- Urban Park Implementation 3- Implantation of aeration systems / fountains within the waters remediation program 4- Reconfiguration of the Fish men colony 5- Bike path extension along the channel road 6- Proposed new access to Rio de Janeiro’s Port 7- Implantation of UPUs adjacent to the expressway 8- Waters treatment 9- Linkage Overpass construction 10- Proposed Rail track configuration to allow new connections 11- Relocation Housing Units with commercial and services 12- Creation of new subway stations and adaptation of the existing bus station into an inter-modal terminal 13- Relocation Housing Units with commercial and services recognition
Nominated for the Premio Mies van der Rohe de Arquitectura
Latinoamericana, Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona, Spain, 1999. Grande Prêmio da IV Bienal Internacional de Arquitetura de São Paulo, Brazil, 1999. Primer Premio de Investigación de la III Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura, Santiago de Chile, 2002. Exhibitor invited to the World Exhibition of Contemporary Art, 12 Documenta, Kassel, 2007. Representative of Brazil in the 8ª Mostra Internazionale di Architettura de la Biennale di Venezia. Contribution Has written numerous reviews of architecture and urbanism in magazines and newspapers in Brazil, as well as in other countries. Has participated in exhibitions, conferences, courses, seminars, workshops and biennials in Brazil and other countries. Has acted as a member of numerous juries of public competitions of Architecture in Brazil and abroad. Has promoted and participated in interdisciplinary debates including Architecture, Urbanism, Philosophy, Art, and Contemporary Sciences. Investigator Associated with the Laboratory of Morphology, University of Buenos Aires, SICyT-FADU/UBA.
Member of the Cartel of Art and Psychoanalysis of the Institution Letra Freudiana of Rio de Janeiro.
Member of the Instituto de Arquitetos do Rio de Janeiro (IAB-RJ).
Publications (a few amongst many):
Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts, "The
Favela-Bairro Project", Jorge Mario Jáuregui Architects, The Sixth Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design. Edited by Rodolfo Machado, 2003. "Public Space - Broken City", 306090, Architectural Journal nº9, Ago. 2005, Princeton Architectural Press, Chicago. "Design Like You Give a Damn", Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises, Edited by Architecture for Humanity, Metropolis Magazine, New York, pag. 216/221, 2006. "The Good Life, New Public Spaces for Recreation", Published by Van Alen Institute, Zoe Rayan editor, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, p. 70, 2006. "Favelas (Slums) Upgrading", La Biennale di Venezia 8.Mostra Internazionale D´architettura, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, 2002. Discussion points.
Maintainingor demolishing ? Does segregation have positive or negative impact?