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Bus:Stop project

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Sou Fujimoto, Smiljan Radic and Wang Shu are among seven international architects invited to design bus stops for a tiny Austrian village in exchange for a holiday there.

The village of Krumbach in the the Bregenzerwald district has a population of around 1,000 people spread over a cultivated landscape. Its recently formed cultural association instigated the Bus:Stop project to boost the number of tourists who already visit the surrounding Bregenzerwald area for its scenery, hospitality and architecture.

Hoping to promote an international exchange of ideas, the association engaged seven architects – Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, Wang Shu’s Amateur Architecture Studio from China, Norwegian studio RintalaEggertsson Architects, Ensamble Studio from Spain, Chilean architect Smiljan Radic, Architecten de Vylder Vinck Taillieu from Belgium and Russian architect Alexander Brodsky – to design bus stops around the village.

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Com mil habitantes, a vila de Krumbach, na Áustria, não é propriamente a meca do turismo mundial. No entanto, esta pequena comunidade conseguiu chamar a atenção dos media globais com um projecto que tem tanto de criativo como de simples.

Há alguns anos, a associação cultural da vila abordou sete arquitectos internacionais com um briefing pouco habitual: “desenhem uma paragem de autocarro e pagamos-vos umas férias gratuitas em Krumbach”.

Todos os arquitectos aceitaram a proposta e, no Verão de 2013, a construção começou. Os arquitectos internacionais – Sou Fujimoto (Japão), Wang Shu (China), Rintala Eggertsson (Noruega), Ensamble Studio (Espanha), Smiljan Radic (Chile), Architecten de Vylder Vinck Taillieu (Bélgica) e Alexander Brodsky (Rússia) – colaboraram com mais de 200 designers locais e as estruturas são hoje uma realidade.

 

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