Ensaio 04 / FAHR 021.3

Daniel Tapia

6 years ago

Architects: FAHR 021.3
Location: Povoa de Varzim, Portugal
Team: Hugo Reis, Filipa Frois Almeida, Sérgio Marafona, Catarina Azevedo
Project Year: 2018
Photographs: José Campos

Production: Manuel Fernando Martins da Rocha

Text description provided by the architects. Ensaio 04 is a geometric study of a curved surface built through straight planes of poplar wood, resulting in a perspective deformation.

The exercise proposed by FAHR presents a scenic element related to the theatre, which is also an exercise of scale since it relates the building with the public space, creating a temporary urban scenery.

Besides, Ensaio 04 is a strange object due to the illusion that it creates to the human eye, and because of the relations of shadow/light, full /empty that change during the day.

Ensaio 04 takes part in a set of geometric experiments developed by FAHR and was developed from a challenge of the Municipality of Póvoa de Varzim for the celebration of the 3rd anniversary of the reopening of the Garrett Cinema-Theater.