Orizzontale Activates the Street with Wooden Intervention in the Azores Islands
Orrizontale has constructed ?Casa do Quarteirão,? a permanent wooden installation developed for Walk&Talk 2016, an annual arts festival in the Azores islands, that reclaims the physical space of the street for ?convivial and collaborative use.?
© Rui Soares
Orrizontale has constructed ?Casa do Quarteirão,? a permanent wooden installation developed for Walk&Talk 2016, an annual arts festival in the Azores islands, that reclaims the physical space of the street for ?convivial and collaborative use.?
© Sara Pinheiro
In 2011, Walk&Talk was founded to ?transform the islands into a laboratory for contemporary and transdisciplinary artistic creation, producing experimental projects, in a permanent dialogue with the territory, the culture and the local community, promoting a favorable environment for sharing and co-creation.?Collaborating with visual designer NO-ROCKET, Orrizontale builds on this mission with ?Casa do Quarteirão.? Located in the O Quarteirão neighborhood near the Ponta Delgada historic city center, the project attempts to preserve and enhance an area of the city that has not been invaded by parking lots and cars.?After a first visit in Ponta Delgada, during a public talk at MIOLO Art Gallery, we chose together with the inhabitants to work in the small Travessa da Rua d?Acoa, to materialize a common square, a place for the community,? explain the archi...
© Rui Soares
Orrizontale has constructed ?Casa do Quarteirão,? a permanent wooden installation developed for Walk&Talk 2016, an annual arts festival in the Azores islands, that reclaims the physical space of the street for ?convivial and collaborative use.?
© Sara Pinheiro
In 2011, Walk&Talk was founded to ?transform the islands into a laboratory for contemporary and transdisciplinary artistic creation, producing experimental projects, in a permanent dialogue with the territory, the culture and the local community, promoting a favorable environment for sharing and co-creation.?Collaborating with visual designer NO-ROCKET, Orrizontale builds on this mission with ?Casa do Quarteirão.? Located in the O Quarteirão neighborhood near the Ponta Delgada historic city center, the project attempts to preserve and enhance an area of the city that has not been invaded by parking lots and cars.?After a first visit in Ponta Delgada, during a public talk at MIOLO Art Gallery, we chose together with the inhabitants to work in the small Travessa da Rua d?Acoa, to materialize a common square, a place for the community,? explain the archi...
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