This urban proposal for Rio de Janeiro shows how the design of an 'educational infrastructure' can be used to overcome increasing instability and illegibility of the contemporary city. Based on a process of intense typological hybridization, the formal investigation analyzes, recodes, and synthesizes the various elements of Brazil's progressive schools, Bust Rapid Transit stations, and pedestrian bridges along the backbone of a major transportation corridor. This initially formal operation is combined with a programmatic remixing of these typologies, resulting in a hybrid piece of urban equipment residing in the interstices of Rio's fragmented urban landscape. These 'knowledge mobility centers" provide an experimental secondary school facility that also serves as a teacher training center, amplifying the community-building traits of schools to become an urban-scale program serving the entire city of Rio.
