UNDER THE COMPRESSION OF LIGHT

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

UNDER THE COMPRESSION OF LIGHT
Sculptor Studio in Rabo de Peixe- St. Michael Island, Azores 2018 -

Client - Isabel Silva Melo
Project leader - Francesco Ugolotti / collaborator - Katarzina Malinowska
Engineering - Isabel Ponte / Tender, Fiscal - Pedro Câmara / Builder - Marco Oliveira
Site Montage Photos - Valter Vinagre /Pico Rockscape Photos reserved rights

A sculptor needed an extension to her house for a small atelier.
The breath of creation expanded the house, filled now with her tools and work. New space for work attached to the kitchen, two ovens, archive, receive clients, serve as showroom and workshop area within the farm compound.

This elastic need grew from a new door opened in the kitchen, was subjected by the upper south skylight, that drops in the wall, enters the space and pushes the north limit wall out and exits through a cascade of light creating the 'lightfall' window frame from where Belinha will work overlooking the garden.

The tactile and rough character of the site is mirrored in the building method, rural and man made with a team of 3: the builder Marco, his father-in-law and a young helper. As the rocks and sections along the coasts and cliffs of Azores, isolated in a remote part of middle island, textures will be assumed in its crude finishing outside with continous and curving pouring marks of the single daylong concrete fill, glowing then inside, as a repository of a rich and elevated softly telling treasure. Refracting its miraculous dreams and stories to come, treads from a future salvation, a warm and pacified smile from a past doom. A present, certain and quiet gem.