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Time Capturing Machine – Store & Theatre RENOVA

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“Let’s indulge in a little science fiction for a moment. Time travel movies often feature a vast, energy‐hungry machine. The machine creates a path through the fourth dimension, a tunnel through time. A time traveller, a brave, perhaps foolhardy individual, prepared for who knows what, steps into the time tunnel and emerges who knows when. The concept may be far‐fetched, and the reality may be very different from this, but the idea itself is not so crazy.” 1 – Stephen Hawking
There was, from the beginning, the intent to work this project as a machine, a TIME CAPTURING MACHINE.
This condition was naturally the result of the place, the context and the industrial spirit, that penetrated the
imagination. Condition to which it was added the will to capture, within the project, time and its flow. A flow
of time and light into the spaces that would say – the architecture captures time, architecture captures the
flow of time.
Its will originated from two different questions. How is it possible for matter with such low density matter,
like air and light, to capture time within a space? Can space be captured through Architecture? Or are these
abusive reflections, which unduly take over elements that cannot relate between them? Space, Time and Architecture 2. How is it possible, through Architecture, to articulate these different concepts?
The solution took shape from the moment we confronted ourselves with the possibility of Architecture being
a TIME CAPTURING MACHINE itself, a decision which demanded a specific approach methodology for all of
the project’s decisions. It constituted itself by this fundamental fact which divided the issue into two main
areas of activity, SURFACE and PERFORATION.
Thinking the project through surface, endowing it with continuity and antagonising expression, which
accurately demarcate the boundaries between two of the project’s fundamental surfaces, interior and
exterior. The demarcation was done not only through matter and its own expression but also through
drawing and assessing the point of transition between the two SURFACES. We decided that the exterior
surface would be built and characterized by the steel’s own expression. As opposed to that, the interior
surface would be characterized by colour and its expression. The continuous use of a single colour or of a
single matter endows the project with a high level of abstraction. It qualifies it through two surfaces, of
antagonising character, which give contrast and simultaneously emphasize another fundamental premise, perforation.
Perforation over the surface, which is obtained from two different mechanisms, the cut and perforation itself. The cut can be seen in the sectioning we did in the pre‐existing industrial building, which resulted in the space’s transparent extremities. The PERFORATION mechanism can be seen in the remaining operations, shifting only in its scale and dimension, according to the qualification intended of each of the spaces.
We tried, through architecture and this time machine, to build spaces where people could experience the lightness and density of time and its different temporalities.
PROJECT: 2010
CONSTRUCTION: 2013 – 2014
AUTHOR: Paulo Henrique Durão, Architect
COLLABORATION:
Daniel Gil Tomé, Architect
Inês Belmarço, Architect
Inês Sá, Architect
João Ricardo Dias, Architect
Raul Serra, Architect
Tânia Figueiredo Dias, Architect
STRUCTURE: Pedro Viegas, Engineer
CONSTRUCTION: Fragoso&Filhos, Lda.
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Fernando Guerra, FG+SG Architectural Photography | Fotografia de Arquitectura
CLIENTS: Renova – Fábrica de Papel do Almonda, SA
LOCATION: Almonda, Torres Novas, Portugal
AREA: 374m2

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