Abstraction that is lost in nature. Liquid Pavilion by depA Architects
07/12/2017.
Pavilhão do Lago [Serralves Foundation - Porto] Portugal
metalocus, ÁNGEL BLANCO
metalocus, ÁNGEL BLANCO
Description of project by depA Architects
The pavilion uses both the Museum building and the Serralves Park as its raw material, each one in a different scale. Firstly, the pavilionís design establishes an indirect relationship with the Museum building.
The pavilionís design is a polygon extracted from the Museumís layout, corresponding to one of its characteristic spaces ó the bow window ó whose classic hexagonal matrix is repeated and emerges at various times throughout the Park, both in the pavements and the landscape features. The concave polygonal configuration of this layout provides the perfect base for a projection space.
Secondly, the extracted polygon, once implanted in the Park and with its original context altered, including the transformation of its shape and materiality, becomes something new and detaches itself from its original source. In this second stage, the pavilion approaches the Park, establishing an affinity with its textures and finding its own materiality. It is implanted on top of the lake, whose water offers its principle: dark glass that mirrors its reflection and also the surrounding landscape of dense foliage.
The pavilion is filled with colour, light and echoes, ëcamouflaging itselfí in its host environment.
Finally, in addition to the relationship between the Museum and the Park, it also establishes a bridge with the artwork that it harbours, due to its location and the relationship that it obliges the visitor to establish with the water. However, the pavilionís interior is sufficiently neutral to create the space required to be able to discover the video projected inside.
The group depA [department Architecture] was created in 2009, in Oporto. From the work developed for depA stands out the First prize for the production of the project of the future Museum of Contemporary Art Santiago Ydáñez, in Jaen, Spain, and the block of Avenal, Honor's Mention in the Prémio de Tijolo de Face à Vista Vale da Gândara. The project of block in Avenal was one of the 100 works selected in "Arquitetura Portuguesa - Discrição é to Nova Visibilidade", a sample of the Portuguese architecture produced in the last 20 years and that included an exhibition in Sao Paulo, 2013.
Carlos Azevedo. Studied at dArq-FCTUC and TUDelft. Collaborated with Jose Gigante Architecture Studio from 2007 to 2012 and from 2012 to 2014 with MVCC Arquitectos.
Carlos M Guimarães. Studied at dArq-FCTUC and Milan Polytechnic. Post-graduated course in Urban and Regional Planning from Porto Business School. Worked in Bilbao, Caracas and Lisbon. Collaborates with Iperforma, SA, in Porto, and writes to several international magazines.
Luís Sobral. Studied at dArq-FCTUC and EPFL (Lausanne). Collaborates since 2008 with the studio Pedra Líquida.
João Crisóstomo. Studied at dArq-FCTUC and TUDelft. Was director of NU magazine in 2007/08. Writes to several magazines. Collaborated with the studio Pedra Líquida from 2008 to 2012. Collaborates with MVCC Architects.