Gallery

Ponta Delgada, Portugal

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Gallery

Ponta Delgada, Portugal

Firm

Walk&Talk - Arts Festival

Type

Cultural › Pavilion Sculpture

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2017

SIZE

0 sqft - 1000 sqft

BUDGET

$0 - 10K

Gallery, a project by JQTS - João Quintela (PT) + Tim Simons (DE), is placed in front of the original building that hosted previous editions of Walk&Talk before the building’s subsequent sale and the finding of a new venue. The location as well as the title of the project is a reference to Walk&Talk’s own history. The pavilion’s basic element is a triangular frame made of local Cryptomeria wood that, through the repetition of 18 identical rooms, allows itself as a reading of a space, a building, or even a new reality. At its highest point, the pavilion has a main room visible from the outside but reachable only by passing through a labyrinth of each of these 18 rooms. Mimicking a sightline from a castle’s apex, the viewer becomes the physical and haptic centre-point of the Atlantic promenade below. It creates a new diagonal axis from the city towards the ocean, encouraging a dialogue between the tower of the theatre and the former Walk&Talk gallery. Imagined as a small landmark structure, Gallery creates new possibilities of reimagining height and elaboration of past grand architectural forms to one that avails itself as a more humane, common meeting place.

Materials: Cryptomeria, black net, black oil paint, lapilli
Dimensions: 10 x 12 x 6 m