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FRACTURE
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings Martin Heidegger, Poetry, Language, Thought
The museum brings a geographical interpretation of Douro Valley with its cracks and canyons to the city
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The site is a concrete block along the riverside, used as an open air parking lot. The project hits and breaks this block and fits the functions of a museum within the broken fragments. The fragments become a structured landscape, allowing the urban movement to pass through.
Roof Top Vineyard
INSET
GRANITE
Landscape Islands
A number of fragments are shaped as gabion terraced islands to preserve existing trees along the riverside. Some of these are accessible and some just let nature be.
Along the fracture there is a constant change in x,y and z.
Volumes get higher and lower, opaque and transparent, natural and man-made Proportions change, and from the in-betweens, the river glimpses
While the museum is playful and experimental the marketplace settles on a grid, following functionality point 0 being the river level the exhibition rooms affect above and below popping out of their boundaries an ordered alternation of contrasting elements
Rhythm
The steps of winemaking process are translated as peace or chaos where each room is the opposite of the one before.
The spatial atmosphere of the museum defines a rhythm out of the alternation of contemplation and interaction.
interactive modern fermentation in tanks a labyrinth of metal contemplative traditional fermentation in lagar a pool of pressure
