The 2016 Olympic torch by São Paulo studio Chelles & Hayashi has been exposed ahead of up coming year’s games in Rio de Janeiro.
Chelles & Hayashi produced the recycled aluminium torch for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. The design and style expands vertically when it comes into speak to with the flame to reveal a series of coloured resin sections.
Presented during a ceremony in Brasília on Friday, the Olympic torch will be passed amongst 12,000 torchbearers, who will every run roughly 200 metres with one of the types in the course of a relay in the run up to the video games.
When the flame is passed from one runner to yet another, in an action recognized as “the kiss of the torches”, the sections in direction of the leading of the baton will automatically open up.
The blue and green resin sections uncovered beneath, along with the yellow flame, are made to signify the sea, mountains, sky and sun, and are also the hues discovered in the Brazilian flag.
The torch’s triangular shape – equivalent to Barber and Osgerby’s style for London 2012 – alludes to the three Olympic values of excellence, friendship and respect.
“The style of the Rio 2016 Torch was inspired by the Olympic spirit, our country’s nature, and the harmonious diversity and vitality of our individuals,” said Rio 2016 brand director Beth Lula. “We employed the specific stroke of the Rio 2016 brand to design the torch’s contours.
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“Its horizontal segments, once open, reveal the sky, mountains, sea and the ground, represented by the promenade of Copacabana,” she additional.
Each and every torch weighs among 1 and one.5 kilograms, measuring 63.5 centimetres high when contracted and 69 centimetres when expanded.
Chelles & Hayashi – a reasonably unknown studio that works with merchandise, packaging and brand identity – was selected from a nationwide competition that integrated 76 agencies. The winning layout was refined in collaboration with the Rio 2016 Organising Committee.
The torch will pass via 300 cities and towns on its 100-day journey across Brazil – the initial South American country to host the games.
“We want to display the globe the chemistry that we think will be born when the Olympic Flame meets the warmth of the Brazilian folks,” mentioned Nuzman. “Rio de Janeiro is doing work very tough to host the games, but these are all of Brazil’s video games and the whole population will take portion.”
The torch relay will conclude at the Olympic Stadium in Rio, made by architects Carlos Porto and Gilson Santos. The stadium was completed in 2007, but closed temporarily in 2013 due to structural problems with its roof. The stadium sits within the wider AECOM-masterplanned Olympic park – a lagoon-side peninsula in the city’s Barra da Tijuca district that includes 15 sports activities venues.
Barber and Osgerby’s design and style for the London 2012 Olympic torch
The tradition of the Olympic torch relay dates back to the 1936 Berlin games, and has been attribute of each and every subsequent occasion. The flame is lit in Athens – the place the games first originated – then flown to the host country prior to travelling close to on a set route just before lighting a cauldron during the opening ceremony, which burns for the duration of the tournament.
Rio 2016 Olympic Video games will take location from five to 21 August.
