Chimera: Monster or fantastic composition, product of the imagination.

Scopio: Suffix, adverbial, Greek root, referring to what makes you see.

Quimeroscopio is an installation that intends to welcome artistic interventions, as well as to awaken in the visitor the discovery of form, revealing new possibilities for crossing the square of the museum. The installation takes the form of a habitable sculpture, composed of four rings or vertebrae, joined by an axis or vertebral column, which rises from the ground. The rings converge in shape but diverge in size, creating a perspective effect that fragments the landscape, similar to an observation instrument. The sculpture is covered by a scaled skin, an armor designed from the reuse of leftover materials from exhibition supports, such as metal profiles and MDF boards.

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Architecture

Duarte Rato, Arch.

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Team

Pedro Freitas, Arch.

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Engineering

Tal Projeto

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Construction 

Moldura do Conhecimento

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Location

Museum Square, Centro Cultural de Belém  

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Client

CCB

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Year

2011