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fala turns leftover metal into color-coded grid that multiplies itself through mirror in porto

designboom | architecture & design magazine·thomai tsimpou I designboom·about 2 months ago
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fala installs mirrored pavilion at porto’s book fair   The architects at fala atelier transform a 10-square-meter book fair stand into a spatial installation for Circo de Ideias in Porto, Portugal . Working within a 3-by-3-meter footprint and a limited budget, the project refuses the neutrality expected of a standard exhibition stand.   The structure is assembled from leftover metal profiles of varying sections, repainted in a fresh, almost excessive color palette ranging from acid greens and electric blues to teals and greys. Twenty-four pieces in total are organized around a slightly displaced central column, introducing a sense of instability into an otherwise orthogonal logic. Profiles of the same color never meet. They approach, hesitate, and resolve themselves into knots rather than intersections, a three-dimensional grid that carries traces of Superstudio’s Supersurface and faintly recalls Eisenman’s formal logic.…

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