Building Investment (Nov - Dec 2016)
As we roll out our last issue for the year, it is only natural to cast a retrospective glance on past events. The year 2016 will most likely be remembered for Brexit and Americans electing a billionaire businessman as President. It was also a challenging year for the building and construction sector with the regional economic slowdown, government cooling measures and bank credit squeeze...
As we roll out our last issue for the year, it is only natural to cast a retrospective glance on past events. The year 2016 will most likely be remembered for Brexit and Americans electing a billionaire businessman as President. It was also a challenging year for the building and construction sector with the regional economic slowdown, government cooling measures and bank credit squeeze...
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Design Feature<br />
The PortHole installation stops curious<br />
visitors with its unique design<br />
Installation by architects Antonio Nardozzi and María Dolores del Sol Ontalba, located by the<br />
quayside, is in conjunction with Festival des Architectures Vives in France.<br />
THE PORTHOLE pavilion is an experimental<br />
architecture designed by Antonio Nardozzi<br />
and María Dolores del Sol Ontalba for the<br />
10th edition of the Festival des Architectures<br />
Vives. Located at Quay Paul Harris, La Grande<br />
Motte, France, the porthole on the seafront<br />
changes in perspective according to one’s<br />
angle of view, thanks to its anamorphic design<br />
which resembles a circle.<br />
The installation has been designed<br />
by combining optical and mathematical<br />
processes—starting from a cubic shape and<br />
evolving into a geometric circular shape.<br />
The sculpture, which looks like it was<br />
moulded by wind erosion, allows visitors<br />
to rest on it, walk throught it or take shelter<br />
inside. It stirs curiosity and invites participants<br />
to peer into it from different angles.<br />
The volume of the pavilion, whose side is<br />
three metres wide, occupies a footprint of nine<br />
square metres. A total of 120 MDF boards are<br />
joined together by metal screws to create the<br />
installation and pink is used to coincide with<br />
the Festival colour.<br />
Passersby interacting with the PortHole.<br />
Close-up of the MDF boards.<br />
The PortHole stops curious passersby<br />
along the quayside and invites them to rediscover<br />
the beautiful seaside environment<br />
cooled by the gentle sea breeze and lulled by<br />
the sound of waves.<br />
Nardozzi and Ontalba currently<br />
collaborates in the field of architecture and<br />
analysis of complex geometric shapes at a<br />
building workshop called TOMA! •<br />
The PortHole located beside the Quay stops curious passersby.<br />
More information at www.toma.archi<br />
64 <strong>Building</strong> & <strong>Investment</strong> | www.b-i.biz
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