Diogo Aguiar Studio

Temporary Bar

Temporary Bar
© Sandra Neto & Diogo Aguiar
Temporary Bar
© Sandra Neto & Diogo Aguiar

TEMPORARY BAR

Diogo Aguiar & Teresa Otto

ARCHITECTS
Diogo Aguiar + Teresa Otto

PHOTOGRAPHS
Sandra Neto & Diogo Aguiar

AREA
9.0 m2

YEAR
2008

LOCATION
Porto, Portugal

CATEGORY
Bar

Text description provided by architect.

Year after year, the students of Oporto School of Architecture are invited to think on a temporary bar to represent their institution with the expected dignity, as an outstanding architectural object.

Temporary Bar
© Sandra Neto & Diogo Aguiar
Temporary Bar
© Sandra Neto & Diogo Aguiar
Temporary Bar
© Sandra Neto & Diogo Aguiar

The given implantation, the fast construction and the low budget are some of the premises which must be considered.

The proposed bar stands as an iconic cube of light, composed of modular parts.

Taking advantage of the IKEA build-by-your-own world, the project is a parallelepiped made out of different depth storage boxes which give it the modular diversity on its textured skin.

Temporary Bar
© Sandra Neto & Diogo Aguiar
Temporary Bar
© Sandra Neto & Diogo Aguiar
Temporary Bar
© Sandra Neto & Diogo Aguiar

After winning the competition, some adjustments were done and the bar grew to 4,7 metre high, standing as a visual reference.

Built in one week with the help of students, it was completed one month after the jury announcement. A total of 420 boxes were first fixed on a wooden structure and then attached to the main metal structure, on site.

A huge LED net was fixed behind the boxes, allowing the bar to dramatically change its appearance: by day a white abstract and closed volume; and by night a box of changing light following the DJ set.

Temporary Bar
© Sandra Neto & Diogo Aguiar
Temporary Bar
© Sandra Neto & Diogo Aguiar


Temporary Bar
© Sandra Neto & Diogo Aguiar
Temporary Bar
© Sandra Neto & Diogo Aguiar


Temporary Bar
situation plan
Temporary Bar
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Temporary Bar
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Diogo Aguiar Studio
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Diogo Aguiar Studio
Rua de Miguel Bombarda 578, 4050-379 Porto, Portugal