ongoing
photography
2025
together with Alter (Brussels based collective)
spatial intervention
2025
In the present context, a tambo is a barrel for traffic signalisation. Yet street sweepers use it as a trash container [image 01]. In-between their shifts, the barrenderos gather in front of the mural “Sueño de una Tarde Dominical en la Alameda Central” [image 02]. For this intervention, 400 tambos will be borrowed from the city storage, filled with branches, and lifted on a scaffolding structure [image 06].
This roof will cover this square, two storage units for carts and brooms, a toilet, and a built-in bench [image 05]. Here the barrenderos get ready before entering the restless urban environment, spend their lunchtime under the shadows, and say goodbye to each other after the last shift. At night, the roof lights up, glowing the surroundings of orange. Underneath, a display of light and shadow creates a calm atmosphere.
An activated space for everyday usage and performances: a workshop by the newly opened artisanal shop on how to make a DIY broom, a street performance by a troupe of barrenderos (“Los Invisibles”), or a series of documentary screening [image 09]. The purpose of the intervention is not to address the barrenderos exclusively but to make citizens and visitors aware of the importance of their role.
spatial intervention
2025
together with Manon Cools (journalist)
This proposal aims to deliver an icon itself for the first edition of LINE, the Armenian Architecture Biennial, and for the next ones to come. The Teatro del Mondo isn’t located in a specific public space or exhibition venue, but floating in front of the Venetian island. Likewise, the intervention presented in this application embraces the nomadic ambitions of LINE.
The pavilion works as a moving radio station, that aims to connect people in their own time and space.
It enables citizens and other international visitors to address one another through a live and in person broadcasting program. Moreover, this can include interviews, voice messages, podcasts, music, etc.
In the public spaces selected on this map, listeners will participate to the communicative line and it will last for the whole biennial period (the routes shown on the map are indicative and based on conversations with locals).
Together with the radio station, the nomadic installation will be provided with a weather acquisition system that tops-up the architecture of the object. Through this device the aim is to monitor the urban environment and aknowledge people about the condition of the context they live in. Run by solar energy, it will be used to collect data on the air pollution
(PM 2.5 and PM 10 percentages mostly) of different public spaces throughout the city, defining those that need more or less improvement in the near future. After the data collection process, the radio station will therefore be used to daily inform people of the air quality issue, too.
object
2025
object
2024
(Ikea wardrobe doors found on the street, some wood from my previous bed and couch, dried rotten wood from Recypark beams, floor boards from a house in Schaerbeek, 4 weels, some screws and some paint)
object
2024
together with Alter (Brussels based collective)
object