Description
The Brumadinho Memorial, a US$ 1.5 million project designed by a team of Brazilian architects (Gustavo Penna, Firmino Siqueira, and Otávio Nascimento), is built into a gentle hill above the town, with a memorial chapel, commemorative area, and walkway partially sunken into the hill. Mixed into the surrounding grove of trees are 272 flowering ipês (or trumpet trees), which symbolize the lives lost in the disaster.
Products Used
PENETRON ADMIX, a crystalline waterproofing admixture, and PENETRON, a topically-applied cementitious waterproofing material, were applied to the reinforced concrete structures that were used in the reflective pools and water canals, as well as the structures exposed to the site’s groundwater. The resulting construction joints were sealed with PENEBAR SW-55A swellable waterstop strips.
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