Nova Iguacu Peri-Cluster

Client // Self-Sustaining Urban Development Fund • Location // Nova Iguacu, Brazil • Program // Housing / Mixed-Use • Status // Proposal / 2017 • Team // Clayton Strange (with Somatic Collaborative)

Conceived as a new center-of-gravity for a district on the northern periphery of the Rio De Janeiro metropolitan region, Nova Iguacu Cluster proposes housing, co-working spaces, a new regional economic and mobility hub, and civic amenities that include a school and community cafeteria.

The project establishes a central mobility corridor within the context of a much wider valley, setting up a gradation of density and use moving from built up areas to more open, bucolic, recreational spaces closer to the river.

Between these two linear boundaries are a series of zones establishing the framework for housing blocks containing multiple forms of open space, program, and housing type. Within this basic armature, a series of variations are produced within which all the elements of urban life can take place. The economic/transit hub (Moda Center) and school are located at the fulcrum of the site, linking the existing community to the new one.