Trojan Egg

• Architects

This ‘Trojan Egg’ is the first stage of the project OVO. The purpose of this wooden Egg is to create a void, to unveil a new dimension and through it potentiate mystery. Mystery is a condition that is very close to disappear from our civilization. This value is for us one of the main reasons of life, and therefore the Egg is the dimension we choose to express it.

The use of computer-assisted production technologies and the use of a particular methodology of CNC programming (DMP-Design Math Program) allowed flexibility in the production of each structural component. New volumes within the same typology are thus possible without any additional programming effort. The translation into mathematical language of the creative process elevates the status of the static form into a new dimension where the ability to mutate is allowed.

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Architects

Camilo Rebelo

Photographers

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Artists

Rui Chafes

Engineers

Rui Pedro Simoes

Developers

SPSS, Lda

Category: Sculptures
Stories By: Camilo Rebelo
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OVO

• Photographers

OVO project was a challenge of a deeply restless client, which proposed the construction of a space to install one sculpture from Rui Chafes – Semente . This room is in the basement of his home in Fideris, located in the Swiss Alps.

SCULPTOR The egg is a dip in the perfection of emptiness. The introduced silence reminds us of the extreme closeness between life and death.

CONSTRUCTION The draft formwork in particular, held in a noble material, Wood, reflects the materialization of a regular geometric volume, known in mathematical language as Ellipsoid and whose production process had this parametric equation that gives 'life' to that shape. The use of computer-assisted production technologies and the use of a particular methodology of CNC programming (DMP-Design Math Program) allowed flexibility in the production of each structural component. New volumes within the same typology are thus possible without any additional programming effort. The translation into mathematical language of the creative process elevates the status of the static form into a new dimension where the ability to mutate is allowed.

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Nelson Garrido, born in Portugal at 1974, has a degree in photography and journalism. One year of special studies in photography at Belgium school Karel de Grote-Hogescholl Antwerp. Since 2002, develops a personal project that explores the urban and architectural influences on the city landscape. In 2006 is distinguished in the Euro Press Photo Awards organized by Fuji Film, wins the architectural section. Since 2006 till the present he teaches architectural photography in Instituto Portugues de Fotografia. Between several exhibitions, individual and collective, in 2011 he shows in Palácio das Artes, in Oporto, the work “From the desert to the underground” that shows the illegal immigration from Mauritania to Europe. From 2012 after the crises hit Portugal, he starts a long term project working on the residential abandoned buildings. This project called "Home Less" is presented in the 15th Biennale di Venezia. Since 2008, starts to photograph projects for several architects, magazines and book editors all around the world.