LB 29 CAMILO REBELO côa museum

LB 29 CAMILO REBELO côa museum, is the twenty-nine title from LONG BOOKS COLLECTION.

“Off all Camilo’s works, the Museu do Côa is the one that interests me most, perhaps because it is the “hardiest”, not just in the sense of the concept of lasting, but because it is also the most perennial, the most gravitational, and the most pedagogical. So let us see:

1- Installation, like a wedge embedded in the rock, and when viewed from below, the most favourable angle, it evokes the temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion – “Top”.

2- Material, in reinforced concrete, solid, within, and covered with a prefabricated concrete skin, simulating the surrounding shale, in texture and colour – “Réussi”.

3- Constructive system, suited to the material in its variants, concrete in situ or precast – Opposites, but compatible with one another – difficult.

4- Language, the museum has an “Animal Vocation” , a dun animal, serene, and when the topography makes way, it rises in the air against gravity. When we enter the building, we hear the animal breathing, we feel the systoles and diastoles along the way until we reach the dark room, and before returning, this back room without light (‘If you wait you can see…’) is like a sanctuary awaiting As Magias [the magic] that can happen.”EDUARDO SOUTO DE MOURA