Temporary Museum of Nadir Afonso by Diogo Aguiar Studio in Lisbon, Portugal

Project: Temporary Museum of Nadir Afonso

Architects: Diogo Aguiar Studio

Location: Centro Colombo, Lisbon, Portugal

Area: 1614 sq ft

Photography: Ivo Tavares Studio

Temporary Museum of Nadir Afonso by Diogo Aguiar Studio

Formalized as a geometric and abstract city built from large yellow cubes, the Temporary Museum of Nadir Afonso presents an open and fluid space aiming to create multiple visual and conceptual connections with the works of the abstractionist and Portuguese architect.

Imposing in scale and related to large-scale artistic works, the ephemeral exhibition structure adopts a painted and transparent textile covering that creates volume with minimal material. Providing variations in scale, intensity, proportions, and rhythm, various squares (or exhibition halls) of the museum space are defined by geometric buildings (or autonomous volumes), where artworks are placed, striving to utilize the verticality (and scale) of the central space in the Centro Colombo shopping center in Lisbon.

Among several 'buildings' creating this city, two invite visitors inside for inspection, providing a unique spatial experience: an immersive multimedia room and an architecture room. If during the day the intensity of sunlight gives form and volume to 'the city', illuminating streets and squares; at night the buildings turn on their internal light sources (lit volumes), offering a completely different spatial experience within the same museum space.