It was a busy week for Team 7 and we
would like to keep you updated with the last exciting news!
After the speech of the “Grand
opening” by Josè Paixao, the international team has gone back to work, trying
to overcome the challenges in designing the pavilion for Concreta exposition
2013-2014 taking place in Exponord, Matosinhos from the 23rd until the 26th of
October.
After lots of ideas discussed
between Josè, the team and the various engineers and architects coordinating
the project, we came up with a draft design idea of a panel (10 x 2,35 meters)
as well as for a ground floor panel (10 x 6 meters) both showing the idea
behind the social project of Arrebita!
First of all the collaborative
network: made by companies, institutions, coordinators, consultants and the
international teams, which are the core of this “innovative model” and they
enable with their capabilities and commitment the social project to be carried
on. Second: the start of the construction work of the roof scheduled for the
beginning of this week but delayed due to weather condition!
Our new partner SIGN (http://www.sign.pt/) has
enabled the designed panel to look awesome with their latest technologies in large-scale
printing and we would like to thanks them again for the collaboration!
Moreover, we encountered some
problems in developing and implementing a pragmatic idea for a structure that could have
hosted the various samples/brochures/business cards of the Arrebita network.
The idea was to have a sphere shaped
structure that would be the only 3 dimensional objects following the same
circular logic of the panel.
After various design proposals with different
materials we opted for a hexagon shaped structure made out of pallets painted
in white!
a temporary
try of the hexagon!
On Tuesday morning, local artisan
Joao Pacheco with his 30 years experience in woodworking, proper tools and
little tips helped the international team reach their goals.
With all the parts
of the hexagon more or less ready and in a hurry to go and assemble it in
Concreta, the team and Josè left in late afternoon with a Van full of white
pallets, brochures and the office table (which would have been our “exit
strategy” in case things would have turned complicated) toward Matosinhos.
Eventually, indeed, our grey little
round table fitted perfectly to our pavilion and we sadly threw away all the
pallets!
In these two days of exposition we
got to know lot of different people interested in the project as well as
potential partners!
There is still two days of
exposition and we look forward to welcome everyone in Pavilion 3, stand C. 20!
Cheers and Arrebita!Porto!
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