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CAMILO REBELO Camilo Rebelo was born in Porto.

He studied at the German College and graduated from the Faculty of Architecture University of Porto in 1996. He collaborated with Eduardo Souto Moura and with Herzog & de Meuron.

In 2000 he founded is Architectural Studio in Oporto and since then he has created about hundred projects. His area of research has mostly been concerned with the relationship between architecture and nature, linking artificial and natural with in protected areas and classified landscape.

He taught at the Faculty of Architecture University of Porto, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la University of Navarra, and the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio. Since 2014 has a research Studio Architecture and Landscape at Politecnico di Milano.

His work has been recognised through several national and international awards including the Bauwelt Award, Baku UIA Award and Douro Valley Award, as well as nominations for Secil Award, BSI Swiss Prize and EU Mies Award.

Ktima Villa was chosen by BBC2 to feature in a documentary called The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes (Underground).

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The Egg occupies the original place, the point of departure for a house which is not really a house. Much like the crypt of a cathedral, it is here that the underlying roots of the entire construction take life. At its centre, a sculpture floats, a light, restless plume.

This Egg is neither a fixed nor a finishing point, it is a point of departure, the beginning of everything. The Seed that lives within is the origin of life and nonlife, death and non-death, everything that is ephemeral and greater than we are. Expectant and immobile, in this space where nothing is born and nothing dies, it waits for us. We arrive at its presence after crossing the darkness by following the light that will welcome us.

Here, time is suspended, we remain unborn until we return to the darkness.

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FIDERIS, SWITZERLAND 2014

EGG project was full of restlessness.

The client (OJ) acquired a sculpture, called ‘Seed’, of the contemporary Portuguese artist Rui Chafes. The piece built in iron finds its purpose in the universality of OJ’s mind that seeks values such as origin, purity and universal mystery.

In a second moment, OJ threw us the challenge to design and build a space to receive and install the ‘Seed’, promoting a deep reflection between Art and Architecture.

The designed space is in the basement of his home in Fideris, located in the Swiss Alps.

The ‘Trojan Egg’ was the first stage of the project. The objective of this wooden egg was to create a void, revealing a new dimension and through it to enhance mystery. The mystery is a condition that is very close to disappear from our civilization. This value is for us one of the main reasons for life and the egg is the dimension we choose to express it.

From the beginning, we wanted to conceive a space that was in fully consonance with Rui Chafes’s sculpture. The ‘Seed’ brought us immediately issues related to the purity and the origin of our existence and in this sense our proposal was to build a cocoon, avoiding the dimensional edges.

The project seeks to establish a direct relationship between four components: sculpture, void, light and the observer.

Weight and thickness were key aspects to this construction. This space was almost entirely constructed with white concrete which has been poured at once from the upper floor, between the ancient masonry stone walls and the wooden egg with a respect to the ancient masonry.

The lighting, indirect and mysterious, arises through the floor where a very thin marble layer allows to emphasize its translucent nature, omitting the source. The intensity and the light colour can be changed allowing different perceptions of the space and the sculpture, in real time. The experience is always unique, unrepeatable and personal.

The ‘Seed’ is suspended in the air.

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PUBLICATION DATA INFORMATION

COLLECTION LONG BOOKS VOLUME LB 30 TITLE CAMILO REBELO ovo ISBN 978-989-35767-9-3 PUBLICATION DATE December 2024 EDITOR AND GENERAL MANAGER Ana Leal EDITORIAL TEAM Ana Leal, architect Filipa Figueiredo Ferreira, designer João Soares, architect Ricardo Figueiredo, designer PRINTING Graficamares LEGAL DEPOSIT 480255/21 RUN NUMBER 1000 numbered copies PUBLISHER AND OWNER AMAG publisher VAT NUMBER 513 818 367 CONTACTS hello@amagpublisher.com www.amagpublisher.com

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