com José Miguel Gervásio

Câmara Obscura

concours du projet “les Maisons des Sciences de la Vie et des Materiaux”, Belval, Luxembourg

com 2RM architectes, Luxemburgo.

Um novo centro cultural e educacional em terrenos anteriormente ocupados pela grande industria. A Casa das Ciências da Vida, é um edíficio que se constrói progressivamente, com volumes suspensos, interligados por um conjunto de passadiços, escadas, elevadores que se demarcam pela forma e cor vermelha. A Casa dos Materiais é um monolíto de betão fosforescente, esburacado. Na esquina, uma área coberta, por subtracção, marca a entrada.

Stockholm Public Library International Architectural Competition

When we look to the classical aura of Asplund’s public library rising from a natural background, comes to our mind a Ledoux picture of a building surrounded by exuberant vegetation. In fact, is in the confrontation between the south facade and the green land that this temple becomes an icon.

The new library becomes literally an extension of the natural hill that involves the existing buildings, submerged, now, in a new connective and distributive logic.

The new construction is shaped as an open space that provides shelter to thematic containers related between them like buildings in a town.

The roof becomes the natural extension of inner spaces and a green field opened to the city, a place for rest and creation, above a natural movement, stabbed by the light an emergence of domesticated past, in the AVALANCHE of time.

Menção Honrosa no concurso “Memorial Tsunami Competion”, Tailândia

A memorial should be built (when words are not enough).

To re-construct relations between Man and Nature.

The visit to the building should transmit an experience of self-involvement with the sacred value of the site. In a tunnel straight to the Gods the visitor flows in a performance, an ascensional movement achieving a perspective from the sea and the entire coast.

The approach, covered from the landscape, encourages reflection: the impact and horror of the enormous tragedy the significance of compassion, friendship and humanity. The monolithical image of the building erupts from the ground drawing a path over the trees in the omnipresence of the sky. In order to maintain the nature and vegetation of the territory the entire program is organized in a single structure, in a positive and didactic attitude to the future. The construction is conceptually between two walls in which all the program are suspended. In the interior of the lateral corridors there are all different circulation types serving the principal areas. In the base, there is a worshiping space with access to a priviligied exterior area, a scenic point in the cliff, over the sea. From there is possible to reach the sand of the beach through a trial.

Celebrating the human values offering to the Gods.

Menção Honrosa no concurso PeepShow 2004 – Artcity, Calgary, Canadá

XOU is a module of urban furniture for artistic performances.

It allows a variety of activities that could be concealed with other common urban facilities.

The pavilion can also be used as a shelter for homeless people or city travellers.

Its surface can change from a transparent to an opaque layer (alternating from a situation ideal to the pedestrian see the activity which takes place in the interior, to other, that reinforces the introspection of the visitant in the exhibition space and also permits the projection of films).

To guarantee a practical assembly/disassembly and transport, a scaffolding structure has been used.