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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

VOYAGE TO THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD
 Viewpoint area - Sete Cidades - St. Michael - Azores 2014 - 

Client - Azores Government
Project leader - Francesco Ugolotti  /  collaborators - Giacoma di Vieste, Katarzyna Malinowska, Luis André Correia
Engineering - Structural HDP  /  Electrical - Pedro Nunes 

The viewpoint at Vista do Rei at the rim of Sete Cidades volcano is the epitome of the forces of nature at the utmost epic and sublime.

The view to the inner lakes, one green another blue has enriched the local folklore for centuries.

Also the view at the south shore of the Island, the city of Ponta Delgada and all the settlements along the shore help to explain not only the natural formation of the islands, with volcanic explosions and lava canals gaining new land to the ocean but also the enduring difficulties and resilient appropriation men has made during the centuries in order to survive.

This survival tale is told here using nature's algorithm of the prismatic disjunction made by the sudden encounter of lava with the ocean, solidifying in geometric patterns, found all over the Azores and mostly in caves along the shores.

At the postcard #1 of Azores it is only fair that one can be able to enjoy and perceive this ancient natural game of formation with the utmost comfort and the least disruption of the environment. As the brief asked: "as if nothing was there made and touched by men before".
This landscape has seen much transformation with too visible men-made structures in the last decades.
It is time to reverse into a philosophy of respect, built understatement and celebration of nature.
A new visitors front room for Azores with a vision from the interior of the earth.
​A voyage to the beginning of the world.

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