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094: house of countless windows © fala.
Rooms, elements and frantic contents
by fala
Architecture is consistently dealing with form, joyfully composed and ordered out of elements, it is making rooms, spaces, backgrounds, a set of still lives almost, that are waiting to be filled with hectic people, mundane objects and all kinds of chaotic behaviours. It is both very permanent and desperately temporary, it is built, rebuilt, glorified, abandoned and then, probably, demolished. But new meanings are being discovered and introduced while performing a series of simple gestures — tiled walls, coloured ceilings, unveiled structures and off-centred marble counters with daring stripes of black and white marble.
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fala is a naïve architecture practice based in Porto, founded in 2013. Led by Filipe Magalhães, Ana Luísa Soares and Ahmed Belkhodja, while both hedonistic and restrained, the atelier takes lightness and joy very seriously.
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“From the plaza to the tank; from the tank to the grey box… Ice cream flavoured: mint ceiling, stracciatella counter, aluminium floor.” — fala was commissioned by maat to recreate the spaces for interfacing with the public, the Info Point and the Ticket Office, located next to the Central building.
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