el laberinto

Max Dudler, Hambach Castle Renovation, Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Germany, 2012 (via müller)

Giovanni Michelucci, Autosole Church, Campi Bisenzio, Italy, 1970 (via poli)

João Mendes Ribeiro, Tea House, Montemor-o-Velho, Portugal, 2000 (via martins)

”My first work was a Tea House in the surrounding areas of the Paço das Infantas, a set of ruins in Montemor-o-Velho Castle. Briefly, the building can be described as a glass box between two horizontal surfaces – the metal roofing and the wooden pavement – with vertical glass surfaces without window frames, that reinforce the abstract and dematerialized image of the building and its independent but communicating relationship with the ruin. In the Tea House project… we designed transitory and ephemeral objects that responded to a new program, confronting the contemporary to the existing and patrimonial building. The central idea in the Tea House is to create an illusion of a living Paço das Infantas, keeping the idea and the sense of an absence. Because the building doesn’t touch the ruins or the ground, it creates a “cut in time” feel, like a cutaway scene where we feel something is missing, like a suspended object.”

René Magritte, Evening Falls, 1964 (via adreciclarte)

Giorgio de Chirico, The Disturbing Muses, 1925 (via archiveofaffinities)

COMOCO, Renovation of the Castelo de Pombal, Pombal, Portugal, 2014 (via guerra)