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The intervention proposed by Regina Silveira in the east tower
façade radicalizes the reflection on space that the artist has been carrying
through. Several of her last projects - as in the former Eletropaulo building,
in Arte/Cidade - have operated, by means of large anamorphic drawings glued in
floors and walls, unusual optic shifts. They are stairs, windows and other architectural
elements that entirely reconfigure, according to the point of view, the situation
where they are installed. Devices that, through vertigo, provoke another perception
of the places spatial organization.
The project consists of projecting shadows - plotted drawings, applied with
quartz covering - of a water tower on the building external façades. The
projection will also enters the 2º floor, partially covering the floor and
walls. Moreover, part of the plumbing that connects the equipment to the construction
will be colorfully painted. Here the space is not engendered through a conventional
perspective device, producing an impression of depth. No appeal to a surface to
create optic illusion. On the opposite, external elements, façade and interior
are recombined to form another space.
These shadows do not obey the sun patterns, provoking a perception disorder.
Moreover, they penetrate, instead of being contained, the façade, covering
floor and interior walls, following extensions that also do not correspond to
the natural illumination effect. Instead of a shift on the place disposal, provoked
by a perspective, we have a multidirectional movement in the space. Fluxes that
oppose the building mechanics and vision.
The sudden transparency, imposed by the shadows, operates directly on the perception
of the building spatial structuring. The rigid splitting established by the façade,
between interior and exterior, construction and equipment (water tower), is abolished,
producing another space pattern. The shadows function as vectors, introducing
dynamic in an apparently consolidated and static space. Submerging the building,
with its rigid industrial structural logic, in the inform zone. Creating an area
of indetermination and mobility. The same phenomenon that happens, in bigger scale,
in the region urban space, affected by successive restructuring that disorganized
the established fabric, producing permanent tension and realignments areas.
A world without measure, consisting of unusual neighborhoods reconfigurations.
The shadows operate as a fluid, occupying the space in all directions, establishing
connections between what before was separate and detaching what until then was
part of another spatial continuous. Creating a larger and more complex situation
through the articulation of the building with the environment. A space made of
distances, not of measures, implying a more tactile than optic perception. Instead
of forms that organize matter, we have materials that designate forces. A space
occupied by intensities: the shadows.
The intervention occupies all the west side of the tower. A scale that exceeds
the architectural for a decidedly urban dimension. It is to be observed only at
distance, from the street. A surprising restructuring that decidedly launches
the building in the urban turbulence.
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