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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

CHAPEL OF THE SUN
Chapel - Povoação, Azores - 2002

Client - Council of Povoação
Project Leader - Execution - Nelson Ferreira  / 1st phase - James Grainger  /  Collaborators - Pedro Mosca, Olívia Antunes
Engineering - Structural HDP Paulo Fidalgo - AVAC - Paulo Queirós de Faria
Tender - Ana Fortuna​

On a big natural basin facing the ocean, southeast of St. Michael is the first village of the island. From the mountain chain, in the interior, a series of hills stretch down like fingers on a towel, and receive the roads and groups of houses, ending in the vila and the port. In one of these hills, Lomba do Carro, an agrarian group of mainly elderly people needed a new church. The path of the sun trough the day and the year, rules the cycle of crops and the life of people, under the patronage of St. John. The altar is this light traced through the T shape cross across the interior basin.