Architects:Estudio Guto Requena

Year :2018

Photographs :Ana Mello

Arquiteto Responsável : Guto Requena

Development : Bruno Baietto

Interaction : Felipe Merker Castellani, Júlia Teles, Nikolas Gomes, Caio Kenjil

Set Design Supplier : GTM Cenografia

Video : Filmes Para Bailar

Acknowledges : FOXLAB, Museu Da Diversidade, Intel, Prefeitura De São Paulo

City : República

Country : Brazil

São Paulo-based Estúdio Guto Requena’s most recent project ‘My heart beats like yours’, taps into the power of empathy and design-as-activism to create a tribute to the LGBT+ community in Brazil. The large-scale interactive piece is a hybrid between public urban furniture and sculpture, set in São Paulo’s iconic Praça da República, where the first meeting of the LGBT+ activist community took place (1978) and where the diversity and inequalities of Brazilian society is visible every day, in the stream of passersby and the numerous homeless that gather in the area.

Brazil is the country where the most people from the LGBT+ community were killed in 2017. The 16m tall structure made from metal infrastructure cylinders normally used underground, is assembled to form a striking structure that could be said to resemble a huge arrow that’s encrusted and dissolves on the ground.