Brazil's favelas in Miniature

Thousands of bricks cling to the hillside. It is not a favela, but favelas in miniature, each red brick this time a building in itself. Red bricks, blue bricks, green and plant-edged; there are homes, shops, bars, discos and football pitches, even the police and their helicopter are present.Project Morrinho is located in the favela Vila Pereira da Silva. What started out as a teenager’s hobby has become an internationally-successful brand, art exhibition and educational tool. With funding from La Caixa, the group has presented reconstructions of Morrinho in exhibitions all over Brazil and further afield in Vienna, Innsbruck, Berlin, Munich, Paris, Barcelona, Venice and New York.link