Center
de Convenções | Rio Branco, AC

ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT for a Convention Center in Rio Branco - ACOThe entertainment and leisure sector has been identified as one of the industries that will show the greatest growth in the coming years. Cities increasingly need spaces capable of responding to their multiple functions: work, housing, leisure, development and, above all, sustainable development. In the entertainment and leisure sector, seasonality must be eliminated from public calendars, otherwise large facilities will gradually enter an irreversible process of deterioration and oblivion.The specificity of functions, so much in vogue since the 1950s, has proved incapable of making large facilities self-sufficient over the years and with the changing behavior of contemporary society.The advance of mass media has established a paradigm shift in the typology of entertainment venues.In sport, this vulnerability has proved even greater. It is almost impossible to sustain a structure created solely for the purpose of staging matches. Not even our greatest symbol - the Maracanã stadium - has withstood the pressure of these changes. Rescued in part by the Pan American Games, the country's largest stadium is still waiting for major decisions to be taken to overcome its maintenance costs. It is therefore essential that the hourly structure proposed for the state of Acre moves towards the new global trends that indicate the need to create multi-purpose complexes. These multi-purpose arenas, as leisure centers, are becoming important units for the entertainment and leisure industry.Multipurpose arenas are facilities that bring together equipment of different sizes such as gymnasiums and stadiums, convention centers, hotels and accommodation, restaurants, stores, exhibition spaces, where events of various kinds are held:- cultural performances such as concerts, shows, plays, circuses;- sports performances, both individual and collective;- trade exhibitions, seminars, congresses;- party conventions;- religious services and preaching;- and others. Their main objective is to foster sustainable development through the national and international promotion of tourist destinations and the generation of business opportunities. These spaces are integrated into the life of the city, acting as a leisure center for the local, regional and international population. They allow cities to be included in the circuit of national and international events, bringing investment to their area of influence in the construction of hotels, restaurants, etc. In addition to providing entertainment alternatives for the local population and being responsible for increasing the tourist flow, this sector has been characterized as a major absorber of labor.According to ABRACCEF (the Brazilian Association of Convention Centers and Fairs), the activities carried out in convention centers and exhibition halls alone demonstrate their vital strategic importance for the development of the events market and tourism. The gross revenue achieved in 2006 by 53 convention centers in the country reached the expressive figure of R$ 173,620,673.61, solely from the activities intrinsic to these facilities, with a very strong concentration in the southeastern and southern regions of the country.This amount resulted from the holding of around 17,500 events, which attracted visitors in the order of 28,438,195 people, generating 17,346 jobs and collecting more than R$ 25 million in taxes.In the case of the state of Acre, its geographical position offers a unique opportunity for a multi-purpose stadium to become a center for development not only locally and regionally, but internationally, with a direct influence on tourist and business destinations in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay.The construction today of the soccer stadium with a capacity for 40,000 people begins the process of building a multi-purpose space for Acre. It will be maintained over time as a self-sustaining enterprise.