Hand's Rhythm
Design-led Research“Instead of participating in the process of further speeding up the experience of the world, architecture has to slow down experience, halt time, and defend the natural slowness and diversity of experience.”
PALLASMAA, Juhani. The Thinking Hands. P. 149
Hands Rhythm is my design and thesis of graduation. It was developed during 2015 with my professor advisor Paulo Emílio Burque.
The project is a Center for handworks. It is developed along a stretch of an old viaduct of Sao Paulo - Viaduto do Café - in a central area of the city. The project is based in the idea of aproximations.
It seeks new relations between the city and the citizens at the same time that reaches for a new space where the hands can get closer to the thoughts. Through a series of architectural experiences the project explore ways to aproximate the theory and the practice.
Using references from The Craftsman, Richard Sennett to Verb List, Richard Serra or Muuratsalo Experimental House, Alvar Aalto to Mon Oncle, Jacques Tati, the project develops as a tool, that creates new dynamics and instigates new uses or thoughts in a seemngly abandoned place by the city and its citizens.
The modular wooden structure is conceived from ordinary market pieces, like timber beams, battens or strips. The simplicity of the materials and ensemble gain complexity with the new relations that it establishes with the city and the people or between them.
See the full publication in portuguese here.
São Paulo
Year: 2016
Architecture:
Luca Caiaffa
