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lanXess added colour to the
sports park in Barra da tijuca for
the 2016 olympics.
the olympic way, a boulevard of black
and light grey concrete paving stones,
meanders along the entire stretch from
the entrance, past the 15 venues, to the
tip of the triangular grounds. the
8cm-thick stones, placed in a wave
shape, symbolise the confluence of the
rio negro and rio solimões (amazon
river).
the black-water rio negro gets its
dark colouring from its high content of
humic and fulvic acids, while the white-
numerous quiet zones around the
puddles from forming after heavy rainfall.
water rio solimões looks white when
venues also used a coloured design.
viewed at an angle due to the mineral-
For example, the prominent red colouring
prominent feature in the athlete’s village:
based solids suspended in it. the rivers
of the large square in front of the public
the microasphalt for the cycle paths was
flow adjacent to each other for 11km
viewing park comes from Bayferrox
coloured with Bayferrox 130 iron oxide
Bayferrox pigments were also a
before eventually converging. the paving
pigments. drainage stones measuring
red pigment to enhance traffic safety by
stones symbolising this convergence were
40x40x8cm and coloured with more than
clearly marking the cycle paths as
manufactured from more than 40 tonnes
20 tonnes of Bayferrox 110 were also laid
separate from the grey concrete
of the iron oxide black pigments
over more than 12,000m2. these highly
pedestrian walkways.
Bayferrox 318 and Bayferrox 340.
water-permeable paving stones prevent
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