Gallery
Walk&Talk: Public Art Circuit
14 – 29 July 2017
Walk&Talk, São Miguel, Azores, Portugal
Gallery 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.
Walk&Talk: Public Art Circuit
14 – 29 July 2017
Walk&Talk, São Miguel, Azores, Portugal
Gallery 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.
