YOUTH PROJECTS
2013 - 2014
workshop & exhibition \ National Society of Fine Arts
book published in 2015
SQUASH PAVILION (after the earthquake)
The work was born of architect António Marques Miguel vision back in 1982: a squash pavilion (though its function is not relevant for this consideration) located in a park in Funchal, Madeira.
On the pretext of an imaginary earthquake, the work is praised through its destruction.
Thus, ‘after the earthquake’, the structure, the skeleton, the essencial stands still; and it remains valid and beautiful.
The praise of the architectural work, of its geometry, proportion and light, is achieved when its intrinsic qualities remain alive in its ruin. The work does not live of artifices; stripped down, it retains the same beauty it had when intact, thus underlining its truth.
As in the temple,
what was stone becames ethereal, in the consecration of the architectural work; thus the mass becomes transparent;
time stands still and becomes eternal in the reflection of the reflection;
the light becomes the life of the place; drawn in the vaulting and multiplied till infinity.
‘Standing there, the temple first gives to things their look, and to men their outlook on themselves’
Martin Heidegger in On the Origin of the Work of Art
The workshop aimed to explore today’s young architects vision on the work of yesterday´s young architects, once exhibited in the National Society of Fine Arts.
The intervention is a praise to the architectural work that broadens to a critique of post modernism and to the acknowledgment of a greater responsibility of architecture.
ORIGINAL WORK
Squash pavilion
Quinta da Magnólia, Funchal, Madeira 1982
by Architect António Marques Miguel (at 41)
SNBA exhibition: National Prizes of Architecture 1987
SKETCHBOOK
BOOK PUBLISHED IN 2015 BY SNBA