Prize(s) Winners in Visitor Experience & Museum Exhibition
Lighting Design/Product Company Atiaîa Lighting Design
Lead Designers Mariana Novaes
Other Designer's names Lighting Design Assistant: Pedro Ferreira. Interns: Bárbara Oliveira, Elisa Campos
Architecture Company Gustavo Penna Arquiteto e Associados
Interior Design Company Gustavo Penna Arquiteto e Associados
Client AVABRUM - Associação dos Familiares de Vítimas e Atingidos pelo Rompimento da Barragem Mina Córrego
Photo Credits Pedro Mascaro and Leo Drumond/Nitro
Other Credits Landscape: Medra Paisagismo; Signage: Greco; Project Management: Olhar 360 Projetos e Gerenciamento
Completion Date 2024
Project Location Córrego do Feijão, Brumadinho - Minas Gerais, Brazil
Entry DescriptionBrumadinho Memorial is a space based on the ethical commitment of symbolic reparation and memory for the 272 fatal victims of the collapse of a dam at Córrego do Feijão Mine, owned by Vale S.A. mining company. Occurred on January 25, 2019, in Brumadinho (MG), affecting 26 municipalities and releasing 12 million cubic meters of mining waste mud.
It houses an entrance pavilion, a grove, outdoor living areas, pathways to a sculpture-monument, a reflecting pool, Memory and Testimony exhibition rooms, and a space dedicated to the dignified storage of the victims’ corporeal segments.
The lighting design contributes to the creation of an immersive, respectful, sensitive and introspective experience. It reinforces the meaningful messages of the architectural project and emphasizes its elements and symbols: a Poem, a crystal cluster, 272 ipê flowers, 272 stars in the lake (the lost "jewels"), a sculpture that cries over concrete walls mixed with the pigment of mining waste.
Light guides the journey, defines highlighted planes, areas of brightness and darkness. It is a tool to symbolize presence - representing the victims who have passed away, and to illuminate the other - who visits, feels and is transformed by this experience.
Memorial Brumadinho is an act of resistance against oblivion, so that brutal events like this, against humanity and the environment, will never be repeated.
Sustainability ApproachBrumadinho Memorial is in a rural area. We sought to balance the solutions to honor the memory of the victims with the need to preserve the night sky, fauna and flora, directing light where needed.
Despite the use of uplight solutions, such as grazing effects for highlighting concrete walls, wallwashers for highlighting the Monument, inground fixtures for glowing selected tree canopies, light spill was mitigated where possible.
Facades have eaves shielding from light dispersion, use of high efficacy LED fixtures, life maintenance standards (LM70 and LM80), optical control with additional accessories, choice of precise luminous flux and intensity, lighting fixtures manufactured in Brazil, minimizing the carbon impact of transport, are some of the strategies considered.
Also, the Memorial remains lit only during opening hours, minimizing power consumption and light pollution to the sky.
Company DescriptionFounded in 2016 by Mariana Novaes, in Belo Horizonte/BR. From Tupi-Guarani, Atiaîa means ray of light, which reflects luminosity. These qualities are sought daily in our practice and professional conduct. Our approach is integral, looking to contribute to well-being and enchantment of those who enjoy the spaces we design in collaboration with all disciplines and clients, with excellence: from the user's needs and experience, observation of contexts, inspired in light phenomena and space’s qualities. We are research driven, attentive to detail and the technical depth of solutions.
