Espaço Lucio Costa

This space is a tribute by Oscar Niemeyer to the architect and urban planner, creator of the Pilot Plan, Lucio Costa.

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Interior of Lucio Costa Space

Inside this space is the Blue Wall curated by the honored Lucio Costa, the mockup of Brasília in the proportion 1:1000, and also the tactile mockup. 

Brasília's mockup (1987) by Fernando Cornelle Bassols and Antônio José de OliveiraCentro Cultural Três Poderes

Brasília's mockup

Mockup of the Pilot Plan of how the city looked in 1987, the year the mockup was started, it took 11 months to be completed and suffered 2 alterations during its existence, it has the proportion of 1:1000 and has already been exhibited internationally. 

3 Powers Square

A construction in the center of a triangle that connects the houses of the 3 powers, the Legislative, the Executive, and the Judiciary, being respectively the National Congress, the Planalto Palace, and the Supreme Federal Court.

Ministries Esplanade

These lined up buildings are the Ministries, administrative organs of the Federal Government.

University of Brasilia

This building that looks like quotes is the ICC, at the Darcy Ribeiro Campus of the University of Brasilia.

Tactile mockup (1998) by Arthur Henrique BernardesCentro Cultural Três Poderes

Tactile mockup

The tactile mockup, with a proportion of 1:10,000, was incorporated to the collection in 1998 with the purpose of making the Space more accessible to people with visual impairment.

Full sketch of Brasilia (1957) by Lucio CostaCentro Cultural Três Poderes

Pilot Plan

This is the last drawing presented in the Pilot Plan report and has a legend to locate the city's sectors.

Photograph of the Blue Wall and the Brasília's mockup (1990) by Oscar Niemeyer, Lucio Costa, Fernando Cosmelle Bassols, and Antônio José de OliveirCentro Cultural Três Poderes

Blue Wall

This wall exhibition was put together by Lucio Costa himself.

Initial sketch of the Pilot Plan, Lucio Costa, 1957, From the collection of: Centro Cultural Três Poderes
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Sketch of the viaduct at Eixo Monumental, Lucio Costa, 1957, From the collection of: Centro Cultural Três Poderes
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Initial sketches of the Pilot Plan, the first is the basis of everything, two axes that intersect and give rise to the flow of a city. 

Sketch of Brasilia's residential areas (1958) by Lucio CostaCentro Cultural Três Poderes

Sketch of Brasilia's residential areas

The residential areas in this sketch refer to Asa Sul and Asa Norte, neighborhoods that literally make up the wings of the airplane that is Brasilia.

Presentation of the Lucio Costa Space

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