MACHINA MUNDI

BERNARDO RODRIGUES ARQUITECTOS

Projects

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

BUILDING THE SUDDEN STILLNESS OF LIGHT

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

MACHINA MUNDI - House on the Explanation of the Universe
House in Quinta de Santa Bárbara- Conståncia, Portugal - 2005

Client - Manuel Faria
Project Leader - Laura von Dellemann / Collaborators - Adriana Massagué, Béatrice Dornseifer, Francisco Paím, Pedro Mosca, João Pedro Silva, Luís Ribeiro da Silva / 3d images Francisco Paim

In the grounds of a 1500 manor house once owned by a noble friend of the poet Camões, offered the author of the Lusiadas epic poem, celebratory of the Portuguese discoveries, many afternoons of shade sleeping under the collness of the trees. He could see the tagus river slowly twisting by the side of Almourol castle. The hill in front of the Manor is planeed to receive an urban plan. The first house, intended as a pavilion for rest and thought celebrates this idea of travel and mind. Ideas and flights of fancy.

The X canto of The Lusíadas epic poem sees tCamóes explain colossally the Machina Mundi, with the celestial and earthly transparencies and the Ptolomaic visions.