When starting a project, Patricia Anastassiadis often immerses herself in art to tune into her creation. This is where the story of Lucio Fontana comes in, an Argentine-Italian artist who broke with painting as a static, two-dimensional surface to create his famous cuts in the canvas. A simple but revolutionary gesture: this is how he opened up a new dimension between plane and volume, between object and void. This created a new way of thinking about time and space in art.
This reference fits in with Tempo, a project that brings together the architecture of Foster + Partners, led by English architect Norman Foster, and the interior architecture of Anastassiadis Arquitetos, led by Brazilian architect Patricia Anastassiadis, in Praia Brava, Itajaí, Santa Catarina. Just as Fontana crossed the canvas, Foster and Anastassiadis cross the surface of the territory to propose a new type of space. Fluid, three-dimensional, integrated with nature and observations of time. It is architecture on scales beyond being seen: the idea is to reach deeper spaces in the lives of residents and guests of the mixed-use development.