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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

THE INTERIOR GARDEN OF MEMORY
House Refurbishment in Francelos - Porto  2018 - 

Clients - Raquel Rebelo - Ivo Barros
Project leader - Francesco Ugolotti  /  collaborator - Katarzina Malinowska
Engineering - Pedro Leite  /  Builder - Baldrame  / Eng. Nelson Costa

A house is a book, a plant. 
The idea to maintain typology and interiors on this seafront house changed due to found infested woodwork, slabs and partitions. The approach evolved to face a contemporary non-linear mechanics of family in time, with two teenage boys. 
A new concrete slab barely touching walls supports the upper wood partitions for sleeping hubs, two new apartments at extremes, prior stone walls visible at circulation in the middle. That core divides and centers life, use, as a dense textured light descends to the ground floor softly through the old stone walls and new dark wood interiors.

​Then a few recast of stones, doors, baseboards, railings, composes a new repository, a tapestry as exterior pavement with two new popping glass-eyed cubic bow windows gazing from the living and dining rooms.
An a posteriori open air library from the old interior, cast memory garden in stone, maybe echo of Dimitris Pikionis time roulette pave work on Filopappou hill, facing Acropolis - itself a colossus of historical revisitations, chance disasters and collages.

Sloterdijk in Spheres refers Hofeland's theory, which preceded Freud, of explaining the fetus-mother relationship as a sensory plant, in the symbiotic state between the stone and the interdependent sensorial. 

The ocean movement and rumor at the end of the plot seems to agree with this thought, as the leaves and branches of the trees along the avenue framing the neighborhood tremble.

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