micro-organisations

SAC’s research focuses on micro-organisations and micro-environments since these pervade architecture yet have only recently been actively addressed in the architectural discourse. This is carried out through focusing on Brazil and its architectural conditions as in buildings, designed and natural parks and landscapes as well as material and social organisations that emerge from other conditions.
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The Pavilion

The pavilion in both, historical and contemporary terms poses a series of questions that begin unravel the role of the pavilion as essentially a formative and polemical architectural typology. Whether temporary or permanent, designed for a single function – and always for pleasure, the pavilion has been and is used in the promotional service of states and corporations, to house a unique and small selection of art objects, or simply for pleasurable accommodation.

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EFFERVESCENT SURFACES

The current research endeavors in SAC are undertaken under the general rubric, ‘Effervescent Surfaces.’ This title refers to the modeling and construction of surfaces that are volumetric, spatial and enabled by specific material variables that in turn produce specific sets of architectural effects.
Surfaces represent the quintessential architectural condition of enveloping and separating through the setting out of boundaries.

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