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Diogo Aguiar and Teresa Otto (Universidade do Porto, today: www.likearchitects.com) 

with the project Temporary Bar in Porto, Portugal

Temporary Bar, 2008

Photo: Sandra Neto

Short description

The temporary bar made of commercially available plastic storage boxes, designed by Diogo Aguiar and Teresa Otto of the University of Porto, was created for a competition. The task was to develop representative structures that could be realized quickly, simply, and inexpensively within the space of a week. The parallelotope consists of boxes with different depths that are illuminated by LEDs and mounted on a steel construction. The dimensions of the storage boxes (300 x 420 mm) serve as a raster for the entire project.

Jury statement
An appealing pavilion is made of simple, commercially available, inexpensive products. Mass-produced plastic boxes are innovatively used for purposes other than the intended ones and transformed into an unusual building material. The modular architecture consisting of ‘found’ products is flexible and variable and, thanks to the illumination with LEDs, is an interesting sculptural object.