Residential Axis
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Residential Axis is a major housing-focused thoroughfare in Brasília that forms one of the principal arms of Lúcio Costa’s modernist “airplane” city layout.
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
component of city plan
ⓘ
urban axis ⓘ urban thoroughfare ⓘ |
| associatedWithArchitect | Oscar Niemeyer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectedTo | local access roads to superblocks ⓘ |
| constructionBegan | late 1950s ⓘ |
| contains |
collective housing blocks
ⓘ
local commerce strips ⓘ neighborhood services ⓘ superquadras (superblocks) ⓘ |
| country | Brazil ⓘ |
| designer | Lúcio Costa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formsArmOf | Lúcio Costa’s airplane city scheme ⓘ |
| formsPartOf | airplane-shaped urban layout of Brasília ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
housing-focused thoroughfare
ⓘ
residential circulation axis ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | contributing element to Brasília’s World Heritage value ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Brasília NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
integration of large-scale traffic axis with residential superblocks
ⓘ
role in expressing the airplane metaphor of Brasília’s plan ⓘ |
| orientation | roughly parallel to Monumental Axis ⓘ |
| partOf |
Lúcio Costa’s Brasília master plan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Plano Piloto of Brasília NERFINISHED ⓘ UNESCO World Heritage Site Brasília NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| planningConcept |
functional segregation of traffic and land uses
ⓘ
superblock-based residential organization ⓘ |
| planningPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| primaryLandUse | residential ⓘ |
| region | Federal District of Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Monumental Axis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInCityPlan | one of the principal arms of the Plano Piloto ⓘ |
| separates | rows of residential superblocks ⓘ |
| spatialRelation | runs along the wings of the airplane-shaped plan ⓘ |
| transportFunction |
distributes local traffic to residential superblocks
ⓘ
supports bus and automobile circulation ⓘ |
| urbanDesignStyle | modernist urbanism ⓘ |
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