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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.

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).

Img.1 Fernando Rivera Salvador, Quito Sol Recto, Quito, Ecuador, 2017

Img.2 Fernando Rivera Salvador, Quito Sol Recto, Quito, Ecuador, 2017

Img.3 Fernando Rivera Salvador, Quito Sol Recto, Quito, Ecuador, 2017

Img.4 Fernando Rivera Salvador, Quito Sol Recto, Quito, Ecuador, 2017

Img.5 Fernando Rivera Salvador, Quito Sol Recto, Quito, Ecuador, 2017

Img.6 Fernando Rivera Salvador, Quito Sol Recto, diagram

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.

Img.7 Fernando Rivera Salvador, Quito Sol Recto, Quito, Ecuador, 2017

Quito Sol Recto, Quito, Ecuador
Program: urban installation
Architect: Fernando Rivera Salvador
Collaborators: Juan Francisco Fivadeneira, Cristina Sanchez, Franco Rosillo, Aldo Ortiz
Completion: 2017

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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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