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Meditating into the Water of Tagus river

Design Studio

ARCH. Francisco, Manuel AIRES MATEUS

BAC 3 SEM 1, Academy of Architecture, USI

A.y. 2012/2013

Concept:

Dealing with the idea of creating a meditation space near the Tagus river, I decide to work on the morphology of the site, using the lagoon’s sings as the main inspiration. My idea is to create a walking path inside the lagoon, an horizontal gesture in the landscape, in order to mantain the pureness of the horizon. Sections and height change along the path. From a 350 cm high (above water level) it reaches 120 cm in the middle part. The upper opening of the sections is constant at 100 cm while the lower part varies in width. In the 120 cm section, the walker’s view reach the water level creating the experience of “floating” on water. Meditation becames then a merge of this unusual situation linked to the movement of our body along an obliged path, as a physical translation of the experience of a mantra repetition.