Text description provided by the architects. As part of an initiative that seeks to bring art closer to people, Diogo Aguiar Studio and Joao Jesus Arquitectos have come up with a Temporary Museum to receive works by American artist Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) within a commercial space in Lisbon.

Plan

Taking advantage of the opportunity to create a less conventional exhibition space, away from the logic of the white and abstract cube, the architects sought to explore a greater relationship between container and content, believing that it could contribute to greater public involvement and a better understanding of the exposed works.

Three planes define the exhibition space, which is accessible from three points, in a fluid continuity. The artworks are exposed in curved walls of corrugated and perforated black metal sheet, which assume as transparent as a longer distance, but that can define space and reveal some opacity at a shorter proximity.

Axonometric

If, on the one hand, the perforation on the metal sheet refers to the artist’s image (and even some of his creations within sculpture), on the other hand, it’s dark tonality places the artistic works in greater evidence, by the strong chromatic contrast. Taking as a reference the colors used by the artist in his artworks, the linoleum floor, and the articulated luminaires assume the lemon-yellow color, contributing to give a Pop aesthetic to the temporary exhibition space.

© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

• Architects

  Diogo Aguiar Studio, Joao Jesus Arquitectos

• Location

  Av. Lusiada, 1500-392 Lisbon, Portugal

• Category

  Temporal Installations

• Area

  150.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Fernando Guerra | FG+SG