An abstract space is a proposal by Fala designed in 2012. It is located in Oporto Portugal in an undefined setting. Its scale is extrasmall. Key material is brick. The concept of open room is explored.

A ‘space’ becomes real when it presents understandable boundaries; this exercise aimed the definition of a basic unit of space. Following in an almost literal way what Deleuze and Guattari call ‘radicals’, it was intended an object devoid of any purpose other than to define a radical unit of ‘space’, while making it tangible. Like a glass sets in itself a limit of content, a set of walls would define a specific volume of space. The chosen site was a provocation: a roundabout on a busy suburban road axis. Placed slightly offset from the central axis of the circle, the object emerges as a calm sculptural piece contrasting with the noisy surroundings. The material chosen for the intervention was brick, in order to make the limits ‘concrete’: the tectonic and weight of the masonry would enhance the banality intended for the piece. In an attempt to achieve a level of abstraction the four walls would be painted in white.

0256-FAL-OPO.PT-2012 — Posted in 2013 — Explore more projects on intervention and microarchitecture — Climate: oceanic / maritime and temperate — Team: Filipe Magalhães, Ana Luisa Soares, Ana Lima — Views: 3.216