The Municipality of Cascais, with technical support from the OASRS, launched the "Sommer Pavilion International Ideas Competition" in May of this year for the construction of a temporary intervention in Jardim da Parada, next to Casa Sommer, in downtown Cascais, Portugal. The project "Gravidade em Suspenso," by architect Inês Abreu Ribeiro and engineer Fernando Coutinho de Vasconcelos Pereira da Silva, was named the winner. Out of the 49 proposals evaluated, the jury considered that the winning entry stood out for its “stimulating approach to the competition theme, exploring different states of water in the form of a 'rain pavilion' and a 'fog pavilion' that relate to each other.”
The jury also noted “the elegance of the proposal and its formal restraint, using minimal materiality to create maximum poetry and experience,” considering the “curatorial program focusing on educational activities around ecological themes to be coherent and appropriate.”
The jury also decided to award an honorable mention to the proposal by architect Nuno M. Sousa + Animali Domestici “for the originality of its conceptual approach, envisioning a harmonious life with water and all types of living beings: humans, animals, and plants. The jury was receptive to this disruptive, poetic, and coherent imagery, which, although slightly beyond the main theme of the competition, could be of interest for a future project."
The winning idea will be built and installed between August and October 2018 in Jardim Costa Pinto, next to Casa Sommer, in the historic center of Cascais.
The jury for the 2018 Sommer Pavilion International Ideas Competition was composed of architect Pedro Gadanho (Director and curator of the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology - MAAT), Oya Atalay Franck (President of the European Association for Architectural Education), Philippe Starck (Creator), architect Miguel Marcelino (nominated by the OASRS), architect João Veríssimo (2016 finalist of the Young Talent Architecture Award), Georg Pendl (President of the Architects’ Council of Europe), and Joana Balsemão (city councilor of Cascais).
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This article was written by Eduardo Souza. The translation is powered by AI.
