FERMATA : A PROLONGED PAUSE

In times where technological speed and the environmental crisis demands all our attention, Fermata proposes a prolonged pause, a halt in urban turmoil, to create an intimate experience from the transformation of everyday life.

A pavilion is lifted on two mounds - simple actions such as raising the floor of a square - supporting a brick closing structure, hanging a subtle artifact with thousands of small pieces of recycled metal that are activated with light producing reflections and modulating with its vibration the echo of the city and its chaos generating an urban symphony. The heavy and tectonic becomes fragile and apparent, stopping attention to the mundane and simple. The great transformations, the great movements to face a dystopian future, become possible if for a period of time we pause to observe. The illusion of the complex and cumbersome is actually an adjusted and calibrated structural solution in Fermata.

Introspection, connection, and rethinking the city through feeling become a radical provocation to deal with disorder and confusion. Fermata is not just a piece of architecture, it tries to be a sensitive device that functions as a protocol of experimentation destabilizing - or re-stabilizing - the senses, a return to the body, to think from the body our relationship with the city and the world.

Collaborators: Julian Palacio, Agustín Schang and Laura González Fierro.

February 2020