MUSEUM MONUMENT TO FRIENDSHIP AND ITS METAPHORS

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The open-air museum celebrates the friendship between Japan and the state of Minas Gerais and what this relationship was able to build out of concrete and immaterial.

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The project is a bridge over a lake.

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The bridge metaphorically connects territories, times, ideas and ideals.

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The lake is like the sea between nations, and also that of challenges, achievements, times lived.

The actions and works become visible through remarkable dates that emerge from the water, and the submerged spaces represent the regions of the unconscious of feeling and memory.

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The route starts from symbolic Japan planted with cherry trees to Minas dos Ipês-Brancos.

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Celebrating Japan and Minas, curved walls alluding to the two flags were also placed on each side: the red circle and triangle.

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It is a happy analogy that speaks of the synthesis and conciseness common to both peoples.

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On this wall will be printed in low relief the names of Japanese and miners who participated in the construction of this time of solidarity.

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The shape of the symmetrical bridge with intertwining curves evokes cohesion, continuous movement and interdependence at the same time, and generates a museological route of multimedia resources and accessible language to tell stories of openness, grandeur and friendship.

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Architecture

Gustavo Penna, Mariza Machado Coelho, Ricardo Gomes Lopes, Norberto Bambozzi, Laura Penna, Letícia Carneiro, Priscila Dias de Araújo

 

Artistic Conception

Paulo Pederneiras

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Management and Planning

Risia Botrel

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Place

Belo Horizonte – Minas Gerais – Brazil

 

Technical Data
Year of the project: 2007

Year of completion of the work: 2009
Built area: 534m²

Photos

Jomar Bragança

Leonardo Finotti