Architect Fernando Rivera Salvador is the author of Quito Sol Recto, a sculptural urban installation located in Quito, Ecuador. At the entrance of the city, it symbolizes the renovation of Quito (Ki Toh – Sol Recto).
Quito Sol Recto
Fernando Rivera Salvador is the author of Quito Sol Recto, a sculptural urban installation in Quito that represent a symbolic statuesque instrument of the Andean knowledge.
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- 20 July 2017
- Quito
It also represent a symbolic statuesque instrument of the Andean knowledge, the Measurement of the Time (Solar Clock), which determines equinoxes and solstices. Its height is 25 m and it is detached from the soil 3.5 m, its structure is formed by the structural beginning of the tensegrity and weighs 7.5 tons.
Quito Sol Recto, Quito, Ecuador
Program: urban installation
Architect: Fernando Rivera Salvador
Collaborators: Juan Francisco Fivadeneira, Cristina Sanchez, Franco Rosillo, Aldo Ortiz
Completion: 2017