Installation

The project is an Art Installation, made at the invitation of the direction of Casa Cor Brasília for the entrance hall of the 2021 exhibition, initially, the program was to create a façade for the exhibition, but instead, we proposed an art installation and exhibition that was very well accepted and we went from there to the project for the Gallery of Invisible Heroes.

Origins from Eastern Suburbs Industrial Park and the original features of the site. Dongjiao Memory was converted from the former site of the state-owned Hongguang Electronic Tube Factory, located in the former old industrial area on the outer side of the East Second Ring Road in Chenghua District, Chengdu. Dongjiao Memory is a music park in the eastern part of Chengdu, a multicultural park that brings together music, art, theatre, photography, and other cultural forms; as a legacy of the industrial era, it perfectly retains the factory memories familiar to the generations.

At the beginning of 2019 and through the Urban Improvement Program, SEDATU in collaboration with the Faculty of Architecture UNAM called for groups of academics and practitioners to develop public facilities in locations with a high degree of urban and social backwardness, in border regions of the northern part of the country. As part of the projects of this call and solved with a limited budget and schedule, the proposal was developed for a Cultural and Sports Center located on an underutilized site in Colonia Santa Fe II, in Tijuana, Baja California.

Over the course of the last few years, Intermediae’s Nave 17 has been a space in which different artists and architects have been invited to participate. In dialogue with the architecture in which it is contained, the historic building of the old Legazpi Slaughterhouse, FAHR 021.3. now presents this new piece, La Hoja. The prototype of this piece was originally designed for the public space, for the street, and was only intended to be temporary. Now, however, the intervention has taken on a greater dimension and is envisaged as an open experiment, an activity with no instructions for use in the context of the creation center.

The Canopy was conceived as a unified lightweight spatial installation within a gravel oven building located in Attisholz, Switzerland. The aim of the installation is to create a setting within the existing space to accommodate the 3-day temporary events organised for the fib Symposium on Conceptual Design of Structures, including symposium, exhibition, and Apéro. Such activities request a regular stage area for presentations and discussions, as well as a small exhibition space for models and panels. 

The Summer Shores initiative aims to create «three unusual stations», a temporary installation made of three surprising street furniture alongside the banks of the Vendée River, in Fontenay-le-Comte, France. What does it mean to be «stationary» in public space? Can it lead us to look at our surroundings with a different eye, share a moment with strangers? VOUS’s answer comes in three different ways, 3 projects: the XL Oasis, the Net Pier, and the Supertable.

The invitation to write, in the space of the correspondences, about the architectural design for the 34th Bienal de São Paulo led us to reflect on the work process around it and to revisit the reading that we made of the event’s curatorial proposal – which is aimed discussing the relationship between things, much more than the things themselves. A discussion that is centered on the possibility of dialogue – or of mediation – as a way of relating with the world.

Paradise Has Many Gates is Ajlan Gharem’s first installation work – a 10 x 6.5-meter mosque constructed from industrial steel. While true to the design and function of a traditional Islamic place of worship, Ajlan’s mosque is built from the same cage-like material that Western countries use to erect fences along their borders, preventing refugees and illegal immigrants from entering.

The project is located in the passage of the old Tobacco Factory of La Rioja, an urban space of narrow and elongated dimensions, filled by a monumental red brick chimney. The project restores the site to its status as a built space by consolidating the facades and giving the tobacco factory as a whole its original unity. The interior is articulated through the concatenation of a series of square rooms of 3.6×3.6m that form a spatial procession of corridors and rooms of a domestic character, thus reconstructing the emptiness of the passage.