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Context & Understanding
Sao Paulo is very much a city of flyovers and underpasses, that latter being the focus of yesterday's street research.
This refrigerator has been converted to a novel use. What is it currently used for?
Photos contain some clues but I don't reckon any of you will get it.
Update: The following photo shows its recycled use - as equipment in an under-the-flyover gym.
Writing from Bela Vista | July 22, 2006 | Permalink
Comments
The fridge is upside down, there is a ladder, and a tired.
First guess would be something for kids to pay with, from that tire.
Yet that tire could be a pulley system for the fridge to lift things up.
Posted by: nibaq at July 22, 2006 11:36 PM
A lift system for a construction or delivery site.
Posted by: debbie at July 23, 2006 1:01 AM
The tyre is related, but is not actually attached to the fridge.
The fridge is suspended on a rope similar to that which is tied around the tyre.
Posted by: Jan at July 23, 2006 3:28 AM
Lifting a fridge, even using a pulley system requires something pretty heavy I would think. Plus the rope seems fairly simple for something that would hold the weight of a fridge. So i'm guessing the frige doesn't move all that much. So is the frige there as a weight to keep something else in its place. Like an anchor of sorts?
Posted by: Stephanie Rieger at July 23, 2006 6:21 AM
Also no.
In fact the fridge is finely balanced - minimal contact will cause it to swing.
Posted by: Jan at July 23, 2006 7:36 AM
The lower trunk damage makes it looks like the fridge is supposed to hit it. Is it a warning noise, in case someone starts to climb down the tree?
Posted by: Mark at July 23, 2006 6:47 PM
Good answer but wrong.
First clue: think of novel ways in which the space under flyovers is used...
Posted by: Jan at July 24, 2006 1:07 AM
Tyre and fridge appear to be 'blocking' a well-used (vehicle) track. Each probably swings from a point along its current rope axis, and is not intended to support any more weight. Can't imagine that those forms are partcularly good as a block or proximity sensor though. Do they 'indicate' a block?
Posted by: Mark at July 24, 2006 5:38 AM
toilet? The smaller panel located at the bottom looks like it's meant to direct all waste downwards, perhaps towards a hole in the ground beneath the fridge. It hangs ever so slightly so that if and when the hole ever tops off, waste can be removed(if some poor soul possesses the will to do so) by moving fridge towards tree to expose hole. Fridge remains in place by placing one of the four visible objects around it. A one man job.
That's my guess.
Posted by: Kim Pierro at July 24, 2006 3:12 PM
What pulley? Non is visible. The fridge is a counterweight to keep th top of the tree from blocking the flyover.
Posted by: sixto at July 24, 2006 3:49 PM
The fridge acts as a goal of some sort (which needs to be able to swing?). The ball has to go through the tire and into the fridge, perhaps. The ladder and pole are there to knock the ball out of the tree when it gets stuck.
Posted by: Andrew at July 24, 2006 7:24 PM
Ho hum, not even close.
Posted by: Jan at July 25, 2006 5:43 PM
As a counterweight for the abseilers?
Posted by: Wendy at August 2, 2006 8:57 AM
it's a diesel as hell punching bag...
Posted by: lori at April 17, 2008 4:15 AM