An installation to commemorate the Damião de Gois anniversary, Portuguese philosopher by Spaceworkers
01/05/2018.
[Alenquer] Portugal
metalocus, PABLO CUESTA
metalocus, PABLO CUESTA
Architecture studio Spaceworkers has created an arched exhibition space in an old Portuguese church, to celebrate the life and legacy of philosopher and scholar Damião de Gois.
Spaceworkers designed an installation to commemorate the Damião de Gois anniversary, Portuguese philosopher. Photograph © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Spaceworkers designed an installation to commemorate the Damião de Gois anniversary, Portuguese philosopher. Photograph © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Spaceworkers designed an installation to commemorate the Damião de Gois anniversary, Portuguese philosopher. Photograph © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Spaceworkers designed an installation to commemorate the Damião de Gois anniversary, Portuguese philosopher. Photograph © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Spaceworkers designed an installation to commemorate the Damião de Gois anniversary, Portuguese philosopher. Photograph © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Spaceworkers designed an installation to commemorate the Damião de Gois anniversary, Portuguese philosopher. Photograph © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Spaceworkers designed an installation to commemorate the Damião de Gois anniversary, Portuguese philosopher. Photograph © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Spaceworkers designed an installation to commemorate the Damião de Gois anniversary, Portuguese philosopher. Photograph © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Spaceworkers designed an installation to commemorate the Damião de Gois anniversary, Portuguese philosopher. Photograph © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Spaceworkers designed an installation to commemorate the Damião de Gois anniversary, Portuguese philosopher. Photograph © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Spaceworkers designed an installation to commemorate the Damião de Gois anniversary, Portuguese philosopher. Photograph © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Spaceworkers designed an installation to commemorate the Damião de Gois anniversary, Portuguese philosopher. Photograph © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Spaceworkers designed an installation to commemorate the Damião de Gois anniversary, Portuguese philosopher. Photograph © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Spaceworkers designed an installation to commemorate the Damião de Gois anniversary, Portuguese philosopher. Photograph © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Spaceworkers designed an installation to commemorate the Damião de Gois anniversary, Portuguese philosopher. Photograph © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Spaceworkers designed an installation to commemorate the Damião de Gois anniversary, Portuguese philosopher. Photograph © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Spaceworkers designed an installation to commemorate the Damião de Gois anniversary, Portuguese philosopher. Photograph © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Spaceworkers designed an installation to commemorate the Damião de Gois anniversary, Portuguese philosopher. Photograph © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Spaceworkers designed an installation to commemorate the Damião de Gois anniversary, Portuguese philosopher. Photograph © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Spaceworkers designed an installation to commemorate the Damião de Gois anniversary, Portuguese philosopher. Photograph © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Spaceworkers designed an installation to commemorate the Damião de Gois anniversary, Portuguese philosopher. Photograph © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Spaceworkers designed an installation to commemorate the Damião de Gois anniversary, Portuguese philosopher. Photograph © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Spaceworkers designed an installation to commemorate the Damião de Gois anniversary, Portuguese philosopher. Photograph © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Spaceworkers designed an installation to commemorate the Damião de Gois anniversary, Portuguese philosopher. Photograph © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Spaceworkers designed an installation to commemorate the Damião de Gois anniversary, Portuguese philosopher. Photograph © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Spaceworkers designed an installation to commemorate the Damião de Gois anniversary, Portuguese philosopher. Photograph © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Ground floor plant. Spaceworkers designed an installation to commemorate the Damião de Gois anniversary, Portuguese philosopher.
Axonometric. Bologna Shoah Memorial by SET.Spaceworkers designed an installation to commemorate the Damião de Gois anniversary, Portuguese philosopher.
Spaceworkers was commissioned by the Municipality of Alenquer to create the mini museum, as a permanent fixture inside a restored church in Alenquer, central Portugal.
The venue was chosen because of its historical relationship with De Gois, who was baptised and later buried at the church in the 16th century.
The venue was chosen because of its historical relationship with De Gois, who was baptised and later buried at the church in the 16th century.
"Intervening in an existing building is in itself a good challenge. But when we have added centuries of history, the challenge is even greater," said in statement Spaceworkers, which is led by architects Henrique Marques and Rui Dinis.
Description of project by Spaceworkers
Intervening in an existing building is in itself a good challenge, when we have added centuries of history to the pre-existence, the challenge is even greater. The intervention focuses on the creation of an exhibition structure, alluding to the life and historical legacy of Damião de Gois, inside an old, restored church in Alenquer. The church, now emptied of this function, is now a “container” space with its own identity, marked by the geometry of its vaulted ceilings and the
texture of its brick walls, with great plastic value.
The proposal seeks precisely to value the plastic characteristics of space and minimize its impact on pre-existence, respecting the existing, moving away from the walls, seeking a central position in space, assuming a geometry that is familiar to the building, originated by an offset to the shapes of the ceiling and walls, capturing the configuration of the void that exists in a kind of dark colored, fragmented nucleus that receives and organizes the exhibition and the visitors.
This nucleus, although fragmented, gives the visitor an idea of virtual continuity, where their voids are understood as moments of pause and contemplation of the existent and as moments of penetration inside the nucleus, exploring this ancestral relationship of interior and exterior, which has fascinated us since the beginning of the project.
The exhibition space is assumed as a delicate black element that invites its discovery and that stands out from the remaining chromatism of the existing space, without ever overlapping it but without losing its spatial characteristics.
More information
Architects
Spaceworkers. Coordinators.- Henrique Marques and Rui Dinis. Architects
Client
Municipality of Alenquer
Collaborators
Marco Santos, Tiago Maciel, João Ortigão. Architects
Financial Director
Carla Duarte | CFO
Dates
2016-2017
Area
175m²
Henrique Marques, Rui Dinis, Carla Duarte. spaceworkers
spaceworkers is an architecture and design studio located in Paredes in northern Portugal, founded by the current creative directors Henrique Marques and Rui Dinis and by its financial director Carla Duarte.
spaceworkers® were nominated in 2013 for the Great Indoors Award with the Information Center Of the Rota do Românico, project which in 2014 received a special honorable mention from the Architizer online platform on within the scope of its international architectural award A+ Awards.
In 2015, with the project Casa de Sambade the office won the Building of the Year Award 2015 promoted by the site Archdaily and with the same project also won the A + Awards 2015 in the category Private Houses XL Popular Choice promoted by the platform Architizer. In the same year the office integrated the Architects' Di- rectory promoted by the international magazine Wallpaper *, that every year selects the emerging architects around the world. In 2017, with the Cabo de Vila house, they won the Archdaily Building of the Year Award 2017.
spaceworkers® were nominated in 2013 for the Great Indoors Award with the Information Center Of the Rota do Românico, project which in 2014 received a special honorable mention from the Architizer online platform on within the scope of its international architectural award A+ Awards.
In 2015, with the project Casa de Sambade the office won the Building of the Year Award 2015 promoted by the site Archdaily and with the same project also won the A + Awards 2015 in the category Private Houses XL Popular Choice promoted by the platform Architizer. In the same year the office integrated the Architects' Di- rectory promoted by the international magazine Wallpaper *, that every year selects the emerging architects around the world. In 2017, with the Cabo de Vila house, they won the Archdaily Building of the Year Award 2017.
