THE METALLIC TASTE OF CLOUDS

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

THE METALLIC TASTE OF CLOUDS
Parking, Restrooms and Shop Area serving Sete Cidades Viewpoint - St. Michael - Azores 2017 -

Client - Azores Government
Project leader - Francesco Ugolotti / collaborator - Katarzina Malinowska
Engineering - Structural HDP / Electrical - Pedro Nunes / Tender - Carlos Tavares
Site Photos - Valter Vinagre

The clearance of the viewpoint at Vista do Rei in Sete Cidades called for a relocation of the Restroom and mobile stands to four sell points, place to buy water and a sandwich or a souvenir into a backspot, not visible and in a protected zone.

The place found is the fomer machine park behind the crossroad to descend to Sete Cidades village and lakes, a kilometer away from disrupting Vista do Rei.

An existing pozolana crater serves as a welcoming hand to allocate this little services informal building.
The view over the south shore of S. Miguel and Ponta Delgada is breathtaking, most of the time changing from a sublime blue sky and extending views to a dense cloud torpor, making one taste the flavor of highland water in the atmosphere, as almost metallic.

A need to make it as a transient little market tent in order not to disrupt the natural composition.
Cedric Price's Aviary in London Zoo was revisited in a flight of fancy, meshed with the power of a natural volcano. That makes two.