Detail of the project ed. 2024

capil­la-de-la-piedad / Uruguay

Design­er Capil­la de la piedad
Loca­tion Pun­ta del Este
Nation Uruguay
Design Team

Leonar­do Noguez
Rober­to Suarez
Year 2018
Pho­to credits

Leonar­do Finotti

Pho­to external

Project descrip­tion

When art, land­scape and archi­tec­ture come togeth­er, the observer’s aware­ness is pro­ject­ed to unchart­ed ter­ri­to­ry. Unex­pect­ed asso­ci­a­tions and sur­pris­ing inter­con­nec­tions are made, and chance and unfore­seen events arise. In view of this, this project is a unique oppor­tu­ni­ty to expe­ri­ence how an archi­tec­tur­al space, inter­act­ing with a work of art as sym­bol­ic as the “Pietà” can come to have a, let us say, reveal­ing nature.
Archi­tec­ture is vol­un­tary space, in con­trast to nature, where order and shape do not bend to man’s will. In order to plan a project that will strike up a dia­log, as it were, with an artist’s work, one must cast off any sort of vol­un­tarism. To under­stand the artist’s modus operan­di, one must draw on the vital­i­ty of his cre­ative activ­i­ty. Atchugar­ry works direct­ly on his mate­r­i­al; he doesn’t do sketch­es. The mate­r­i­al takes cen­ter stage, right from the begin­ning. Work­ing with mar­ble is a per­ma­nent give and take. The mate­r­i­al lays down its laws, its ratio­nale, requir­ing the artist to con­tin­u­al­ly redi­rect his efforts. In the work’s evo­lu­tion, his task is to unveil it, to remove the super­flu­ous and leave only what’s inside, that which only the artist can see, and to sud­den­ly make it vis­i­ble to all. The space designed must empha­size the mate­r­i­al and have a pure shape with no super­flu­ous details, as well as a place­ment that inter­acts with the nature that sur­rounds it.
The wind­ing, sine wave-like entry path is a place of tran­si­tion that pre­pares the spir­it for an expe­ri­ence of retreat. Walk­ing through the entrance, com­pressed by the tri­an­gu­lar steel door which Pablo was respon­si­ble for and the ascend­ing ridge, the entrance aims to trig­ger in the vis­i­tor the sen­sa­tion of being in an expand­ing space. The aes­thet­ics are min­i­mal. Every­thing is min­i­mal: mate­r­i­al, ges­tures, geom­e­try. It’s an aus­tere atmos­phere, where noth­ing takes the spot­light away from the work, which is bathed in zenith lighting.

Explana­to­ry report of the project
Down­load report

Pho­to internal

Tech­ni­cal drawings

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