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Adaptable architecture gallery
A group of Brazilian architects have sent us these images of a conceptual, mobile gallery, designed to travel along the river Thames in London.
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The project was developed for a competition organised by architectural agency Arquitectum, called London 2008, by a team of architects made up of Victor Paixao, Miguel Felipe Muralha, Paula Sertorio, Thiago Florez, Andre Mack and Bruno Castro.
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The brief was to design a mobile architecture gallery which could travel along the river and pick up visitors at several locations.
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The project was awarded an honorable mention by a panel of judges chosen by the Architectural Association. See the other winning concepts on the Arquitectum website.
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Watch a video about the project here.
The text below is from the designers:
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Two distinct elements result in an area that symbolizes the dynamics of the city and expresses the unpredictability of human occupation.
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The constant lightness, transparency and visual permeability enable a relationship with the city throughout the course of the river, offering different visions and perspectives of the London landscape. Looks get lost trying to distinguish internal and external space.
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The first element is composed by a form generated by three ellipses that suggests the occupation of the spaces and allows, through the permeability of the structure, the interaction and visibility of the user from any location.
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A winding and fluid space allows individual events, creates different environments, or integrates the entire space of the gallery by projections, holograms, multimedia presentations and virtual experiments, proposing not just a single focal point, but a new perceptive universe.
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The second element determines the limits of the gallery and allows the maximum use of internal space. The rigid form ensures environmental comfort.
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A "switchable glass" system controls the opacity of the glass, which can be changed it to suit the needs of internal activities.
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The facade may serve externally as a support for advertising and as a vehicle for digital media, reversing the perspective and bringing the attention to Thames river.
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