The Memorial Brumadinho is a public architecture project conceived as a place of remembrance and collective healing, built on the site of a major environmental disaster. Designed as a linear, cast-in-place pigmented concrete structure embedded into the terrain, it organizes a sequence of open and sheltered spaces along a contemplative route. The continuous wall acts as both structure and path, integrating seating, lighting, and water points. The entrance pavilion features a 1,100 m² green roof, while the project incorporates sustainability strategies such as a photovoltaic plant and a wetland wastewater treatment system.
My inspiration was the idea of creating a space that speaks both of absence and presence, a place where memory, landscape and architecture merge as a single continuous gesture. The project concept was guided by the topography scarred by the disaster, translating it into a linear concrete path that shelters moments of reflection, silence and encounter. The structure acts as both wall and way, balancing permanence and openness, monumentality and discretion, in dialogue with the surrounding environment and the collective memory it holds.
