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NEW/BUILT  HOW TO BUILD AN ISLAND

NEW THE FRAGMENTARY NATURE OF TRUTH

NEW  THE ECHO AND THE CIRCLE OF TIME

NEW/BUILDING  UNDER THE COMPRESSION OF LIGHT

NEW/BUILDING  THE INTERIOR GARDEN OF MEMORY

NEW/BUILT  FROM THE DEPTH OF SEA TO HEAVEN'S MOUTH

NEW THE METALLIC TASTE OF CLOUDS

NEW  VOYAGE TO THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD 

   GRAVITY GRACE IS MY LIGHTNESS
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​ BUILDING ​THE SUDDEN STILLNESS OF LIGHT
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 ​THE HIDDEN MEANING OF NATURE

THE TRILOGY OF GARDENS

NON LINEAR HISTORY OF DREAMS

CREATION OF OPACITY

THEORY OF WINDS

THE MYTH & MOUNTAIN

VITREOUS BABEL

 BUILT FLIGHT OF BIRDS

CONCRETE SPIRAL OF HISTORY

  BUILT PORTABLE SPIRAL OF HISTORY

THE ELLIPSES OF MATTER

OPUS MAGMA

OPUS LUSA

MASK & THE MIRROR

INFINITE MOVEMENT

ARCH & ORCHID

 BUILT DOMUS IMPLUVIUM

MACHINA MUNDI

THE VEIL OF FAITH

BATHS AT THE CENTER OF THE WORLD

LABYRINTH & BUTTERFLY

THE SHELL OF TIME

 BUILT CHAPEL OF ETERNAL LIGHT

CHAPEL OF THE SUN

CHAPEL OF THE SKY

FLOATING CLOUD

BATHS AT THE CENTER OF THE WORLD
Pool - Rabo de Peixe, Azores - 2004

Client - Council of Ribeira Grande
Project Leader - James Grainger  /  Collaborators - Pedro Mosca

A series of small natural bays among the rocks on the north shore offers the children of Rabo de Peixe a place to bath, among the strong ocean currents and tides. The pool is to offer protection and safety from that dangerous north shore strength. A natural arch on the stone promontory sets the location to the new surface of white concrete, with thee pools, one rectangular and central stage like for the adults and two whimsical shaped for the children set in accordance to a smaller bay underneath, framing the surf of the waves appearing as they meet the bay. The surface of concrete lifts from the floor, protecting the entrance, the changing rooms, and the bar- restaurant at the end and offering place to rest, climb and gaze the ocean and the bathers and the day progresses.