Habitable Sculpture

Habitable Sculpture
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

HABITABLE SCULPTURE

Miguel Arruda

ARCHITECTS
Miguel Arruda

PHOTOGRAPHS
Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

CATEGORY
Installations & Structures

LOCATION
Lisbon, Portugal

YEAR
2010

Text description provided by architect.

With «Habitable Sculpture» architect Miguel Arruda transports a formal memory of one of his early sculptures from the 60s to the present day and gives it the scale and spatial experience of architecture.

Habitable Sculpture
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Habitable Sculpture
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

The «Modulo» exposed in Gallery Diario de Noticias, in 1968 is now subject to an extension 56 times its original size. T

his new volume gives a certain level of habitability, which allows him to interpret the concept of Habitable Sculpture. B

oth fisical object aprotche and tactile values of its first volumes, are today exercised on the exterior and interior.

Habitable Sculpture
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Habitable Sculpture
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

It is precisely this physical experience that the author intends to share with the public.

Under the construction point of view a metal sctures extracted from the initial module, now computerized, responds structurally to the new volume setting.

This structure, is waiting to receive different layers of material such as cork, with a view to opaque covering, or plant elements, with a certain level of transparency.

Habitable Sculpture
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Habitable Sculpture
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Habitable Sculpture
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

In either cases, realizes the definition of an interior space, while producing sensory different situations.

The Olives Garden, in Lisbon, is thus an area where visitors can live the part, experiencing a four-dimensional projecting ownership of art, art as place and place as the concept of Habitable Sculpture.

Habitable Sculpture
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG


Habitable Sculpture
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Habitable Sculpture
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG


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