Carlo Ratti unveils innovation district extension to Brasília masterplan

Italian architect Carlo Ratti has designed a masterplan for a high-tech innovation district in Brasília that will be an extension to the Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer-designed city.
The one-million-square-metre district called BIOTIC will be located at the northern tip of the Brasília UNESCO World Heritage site on a triangular plot of land near to the city's National Park.
Designed as a high-tech innovation hub, Ratti's development is intended to solve some of the issu