Serralves Park Temporary Pavilion, Porto Public Building, Portugal Structure, Architecture Photography, Images
Serralves Park Temporary Pavilion in Porto
Public Building Project in Portugal – design by Fahr 021.3
15 Oct 2017
Serralves Park Temporary Pavilion
Architects: Fahr 021.3
Location: Porto, Portugal
Serralves Park Temporary Pavilion

The pavilion exhibits a video art piece from the 32ª São Paulo Art Biennale by Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca. Surrounded by the gardens of Serralves in Porto, FAHR?s structure is an architectural object that explores the ambiguity between the presented work and its context.

?We propose an architecture that responds simultaneously to two necessities, one more objective and functional, presenting a support for an artistic work, and another more vanguardist and experimental, in a way promoting an architecture exhibition,? describe Filipa Frois Almeida and Hugo Reis from studio FAHR 021.3
Inspired by this duality, FAHR designed an object that proposes an intriguing dialogue between architectural scale and the natural setting of Serralves. The pavilion softly stands supported by only two points that subtly connect with the natural surroundings, thus underlining the park?s topography, vegetation, and meandering paths.

The piece challenges the traditional approach to temporary pavilion design. Its shape is equal parts seductive and harmonized with the natural context. The pavilion invites the visitor to enter by letting ...