Ponce de Leão Paulouro Architecture, Urban Research and Design
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Hedera Experiment
Operating with new techniques and methods of urban intervention, conflict and negotiation are used as spatial practices. This spatial intervention involved a series of self-lit wax and amber pods encasing local artefacts as a means to promote interaction between opposing sides of a spatial and political conflict in London.
Stateless Sukkah
Competition entry for “Sukkah City”. In recognition of the sukkah as a reminiscence of the fragile dwellings of the ancient Israelites during the 40 years of displacement after the Exodus from Egypt, the Stateless Sukkah proposes a spatial symbol of all those populations who are still displaced around our globe. Its design is based on a rule-set of UNHCR data for displaced persons, generating a sukkah which is as much a tribute to the ancient Israelites wandering the desert, as it is a tribute to all displaced populations wandering our globe today.
T.A.Z. Experiment
An installation researching Temporary Autonomous Zones. This project proposes an architecture of relations: a vital integration of human interaction and transit with space. The possibility of extending the nature of festivals, political rallies, carnivals, dances and other public manifestations, through shifting random spaces. A site that strives not to be mapped.
Theatre Projections
Multimedia projections for two performance pieces are presented here. Three video pieces for “Sol. VIII”, performed at the Cochrane Theatre, and one video piece for “Columbia – The Capsule”, performed at the Battersea Arts Centre.
Sol. VIII
A set of three video projections on flesh and body produced for a perfomance shown at the Cochrane Theatre and based on Antonin Artaud’s “Spurt of Blood”.