Idea by
Susana Rosmaninho, Pedro Azevedo
Rosmaninho+Azevedo - Arquitectos
http://www.rosmaninhoazevedo.com
Call for ideas 2019
Memory Exercise
Memory Exercise

- Systemic changes
We live in a time when, as never before in history, cities have undergone so many successive transformations with additions and expansions in many ways.
It will make sense to think that, contrary to what has happened so far, the cities themselves are the largest repositories and deposits of building materials, surpassing the quarries.
The "memory exercise" develops in practice as a methodology in which each memory is used as a research hypothesis for condensed synthesis in the project solution. An integrated and sustainable approach in its entirety.
At a present in which more and more the look deconcentrates in more directions and complexities with new techniques and technologies, reading all these successive layers of memories and information tries to safeguard uninformed and merely aesthetic options by introducing ethical and more solid values into an approach directly material related to construction and intangible issues related to uses and programs.

Medieval remnants inside a Templar tower waiting for musealization ©Rosmaninho+Azevedo

Aristides de Sousa Mendes House, XIX century material repository waiting for new uses ©Rosmaninho+Azevedo

Tua Valley Interpretive Centre, pre-existing 1883 wooden railway warehouse ©Rosmaninho+Azevedo

©Private and Public buildings designed by Sir John Soane between 1780 and 1818 in a painting by Joseph Michael Gandy; exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1818

©Mnemosyne Atlas, Aby Warburg
Memory Exercise
Memory Exercise

- Systemic changes
We live in a time when, as never before in history, cities have undergone so many successive transformations with additions and expansions in many ways.
It will make sense to think that, contrary to what has happened so far, the cities themselves are the largest repositories and deposits of building materials, surpassing the quarries.
The "memory exercise" develops in practice as a methodology in which each memory is used as a research hypothesis for condensed synthesis in the project solution. An integrated and sustainable approach in its entirety.
At a present in which more and more the look deconcentrates in more directions and complexities with new techniques and technologies, reading all these successive layers of memories and information tries to safeguard uninformed and merely aesthetic options by introducing ethical and more solid values into an approach directly material related to construction and intangible issues related to uses and programs.

Medieval remnants inside a Templar tower waiting for musealization ©Rosmaninho+Azevedo

Aristides de Sousa Mendes House, XIX century material repository waiting for new uses ©Rosmaninho+Azevedo

Tua Valley Interpretive Centre, pre-existing 1883 wooden railway warehouse ©Rosmaninho+Azevedo

©Private and Public buildings designed by Sir John Soane between 1780 and 1818 in a painting by Joseph Michael Gandy; exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1818

©Mnemosyne Atlas, Aby Warburg