magalhães . lima . soares .

imov competition . lanzarote

source: arquideas . courtesy of filipe magalhães . ana lima . ana luisa soares . poster design by shizuka

The perennial volcanic landscape is felt walking through the path. it seemed obvious, and almost easy, to let those cliffs absorb the museum, leading the empty space to the extreme, engaging with the surrounding nature. down the elevator access, almost like entering into a mine, the museum lives in the ground. all the way through the mountains of fire, the museum becomes the punch line, is presented as the end, the last part of the route. in the bowels of the volcano appears as a negative mass, an emptiness that seeps from the inside looking to break free. flows in unity, where all spaces are part of one, which ends in the return to the outside. tilts the feeling of living on earth, on the volcano, walking through the inside, and feeling the final breath, hugging the landscape. this void, this museum, this space, lives, and wants to live, from the interpretation of eduardo chillida’s dynamic paintings. the clarity and will of his lines transmit the identity that the space is demanding in the dialogue with the place. the matter is the limit of the space, alluding to the terrain texture, abstract by the recourse to the sculptor’s beautiful black and white colors. this cave would be excavated in the ground; it would not be built and buried, because it is already there. the building is dug into the hillside, is the cave that wants to be inhabited. it is a will, an identity, which enters the volcano, and wants to be there.