BIOTIC is conceived as a mixed development area with a total area of 1 million square meters in the north of the Brazilian capital. If the modernist plan of Brasilia, developed by Lucio Costa, nevertheless resembles an airplane or a bird (which the author himself denied), then a technopark will appear at the tip of the right wing. There, the city borders on the also called Brasilia National Park with an area of 42 thousand hectares.
Italian architects, working on the BIOTIC area, decided to simultaneously conquer two "elements": modernism, the monument of which is the city included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, and nature itself, which in Brasilia, however, is quite human-friendly.
The clear zoning of the 1957 master plan, as expected, was replaced in BIOTIC with a set of offices and laboratories for technology companies, housing, shops, squares and squares. Although the technopark will continue the layout of Costa's "superblocks", they will be divided into four parts, each of which demonstrates the perimeter development and contains public spaces closed from cars in the center - for the communication of residents and the creation of communities. The authors do not hide that they were guided by the Barcelona Eixample and its modernization in recent years, no less than by the heritage of Brasilia.
The second component of the CRA project is the domestication of nature, or its "domestication," as the authors themselves call it. According to their plan, the year-round mild climate will make it possible to adapt outdoor cafes and restaurants for "smart work", and all the curtain walls in the city, mainly made of wood and glass, can be pulled apart like curtains. Sensors will monitor temperature, wind strength, light level. Nature in the form of landscaping and communal gardens will equally infiltrate work, residential and commercial spaces.
The project of CRA and Ernst & Young consultants was developed by order of the Brazilian state development company TerraCap, which has been developing the Federal District since 1972.
