Habitable Sculpture in Lisbon, Portugal Architecture, Olives Garden Building Photos, Architect

Habitable Sculpture Lisbon

Edifícios portugueses at Olives Garden, CCB : Portuguese Architecture design by Miguel Arruda architect

15 Aug 2010

Habitable Sculpture Portugal

Images: FG+SG-Fotografia de Arquitectura

Miguel Arruda architect has completed a new emergent project in Lisbon:

HABITABLE SCULPTURE*
*a project selected for Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2010 – Arquitetura Lisboa

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Text from architect Miguel Arruda:

With Habitable Sculpture architect Miguel Arruda transports a formal memory of one of his early sculptures from the 60s to the present day and gives it the scale and spatial experience of architecture.

The Modulo exposed in Gallery Diario de Noticias, in 1968 is now subject to an extension 56 times its original size. This new volume gives a certain level of habitability, which allows him to interpret the concept of Habitable Sculpture. Both physical object and tactile values of its first volumes, are today exercised on the exterior and interior.

It is precisely this physical experience that the author intends to share with the public. Under the construction point of view a metal structures extracted from the initial module, now computerized, responds structurally to the new volume setting. This structure, is waiting to receive different layers of material such as cork, with a view to opaque covering, or plant elements, with a certain level of transparency.

In either cases, realizes the definition of an interior space, while producing sensory different situations. The Olives Garden, in Lisbon, is thus an area where visitors can live the part, experiencing a four-dimensional projecting ownership of art, art as place and place as the concept of Habitable Sculpture.

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Habitable Sculpture – Building Information

Author: Miguel Arruda
Team: Pedro Pereira
Structure: Afaconsult
Constrotion: Dustrimental
Finishing: Grupo Amorin
Mounting: Construções Casimiro
Totem: Termoono
Audiovisual: Restart
Lighting: Donker by LGT

Date: Jul – Oct 2010
Location: Olives Garden, CCB, Lisbon, Portugal

Photos: FG+SG – Fotografia de Arquitectura

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Miguel Arruda, architect

Miguel Arruda was born in 1943 in Lisbon. In 1968 Miguel Arruda finished studying scuplture at the Lisbon School of Artes (ESBAL) and, in 1989, he finished studying Architecture at the Architecture University of Lisbon (FAUTL).

Miguel Arruda is Professor of the Lisbon School of Arts, where he was President of the Board Direction, from 2004 to 2008. Miguel Arruda was invited to the Coordinating committee of the Urban Design Master -00, by the Portuguese Design Center and the Barcelona Centre Dessiny, EBAL and Barcelona University. Miguel Arruda has given several conferences on the subject of Design and Architecture in Portugal and abroad.

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Note – Lisboa is often translated as Lisbon in English

Location: Lisbon, Portugal, south western Europe