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Lorenzo Bordonaro

http://www.bordonaro.eu

Lisbon, Portugal

Lorenzo Bordonaro is a visual artist based in Lisbon. He holds PhD in Cultural Anthropology and studied Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lisbon. He participated in several artistic events, festivals and collective exhibitions, among which the Architecture Biennale in Venice, Manifesta 12 in Palermo and Ethnographic Terminalia in Chicago, US. He was recently awarded the prize for Public Art and Sustainability by Zet Gallery for the sculpture Refúgio (Braga, 2020).

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Using the concept of the shabono, the Yanomami communal dwelling, to imagine different and alternative urban futures in Alto da Eira, Lisbon.

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Site-specific cases

What can a building do? Can a space be open and closed at the same time? Can it provide shelter and yet be a mean to connect with the environment? How can it foster communal activities and social interaction?

The starting point of my project is the shabono, the traditional communal dwelling of the Yanomami. They are circular communal buildings with an open-air central courtyard, built in the forest with the materials the forest itself provides.

An urban shabono would be a circular communal space, build out of the debris of the city itself (wood, plastic, paperboards), open to the different cultural and social fluxes of the city. In the central courtyard, edible species will be grown in communal gardens.

An urban shabono will a social space where a different urban future can be imagined, a place of utopian thinking form where to rethink and rebuild the connection between human beings and the natural world escaping from the urban social compartmentalisation.

Yanomami communal shabono (Ph. Lars Løvold)

Yanomami communal shabono (Ph. Lars Løvold)

Alto da Eira, Lisbon

Alto da Eira, Lisbon

Examples of self build fences and communal gardens built by local residents

Using the concept of the shabono, the Yanomami communal dwelling, to imagine different and alternative urban futures in Alto da Eira, Lisbon.

# Social

Site-specific cases

What can a building do? Can a space be open and closed at the same time? Can it provide shelter and yet be a mean to connect with the environment? How can it foster communal activities and social interaction?

The starting point of my project is the shabono, the traditional communal dwelling of the Yanomami. They are circular communal buildings with an open-air central courtyard, built in the forest with the materials the forest itself provides.

An urban shabono would be a circular communal space, build out of the debris of the city itself (wood, plastic, paperboards), open to the different cultural and social fluxes of the city. In the central courtyard, edible species will be grown in communal gardens.

An urban shabono will a social space where a different urban future can be imagined, a place of utopian thinking form where to rethink and rebuild the connection between human beings and the natural world escaping from the urban social compartmentalisation.

Yanomami communal shabono (Ph. Lars Løvold)

Yanomami communal shabono (Ph. Lars Løvold)

Alto da Eira, Lisbon

Alto da Eira, Lisbon

Examples of self build fences and communal gardens built by local residents

Idea by

Lorenzo Bordonaro

http://www.bordonaro.eu

Lisbon

Portugal

Lorenzo Bordonaro is a visual artist based in Lisbon. He holds PhD in Cultural Anthropology and studied Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lisbon. He participated in several artistic events, festivals and collective exhibitions, among which the Architecture Biennale in Venice, Manifesta 12 in Palermo and Ethnographic Terminalia in Chicago, US. He was recently awarded the prize for Public Art and Sustainability by Zet Gallery for the sculpture Refúgio (Braga, 2020).

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