mirror, wood


Museum:observatory is a project that brings together three interventions in the architectural space of Museu da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, MG. This set of works promotes relations between the landscape and the museum spaces, giving the architecture a permeability that transforms it into an observation point.

Passage Plans is an intervention on the first floor, a space of wide external visibility. The use of mirrors in all elements of the installation potentializes this visibility. The set of mirrors fixed to both sides of the tilting windows offers visitors an interactive experience in handling reflections and overlapping landscape slices. Still in this seemingly empty environment, three utility pieces, for seating or support, have mirror sides and wooden top as the floor.



“The artifice is present in the Museum as nature’s inseparable double. The reflexive trait of the shallow pool, a classical resource in the constitution of picturesque landscapes and in modern projects, returns in the form of mirrors installed on the Mezzanine. And the ability of transporting things or landscapes from a place to another, inherent of any mirror, suddenly unbalances the site’s tectonics. As a utopia or heterotopia, the landscape becomes a critical image, dematerializing itself right on the spot.” (Renata Marquez)

“The transparence of the pivoting windows, through which the landscape could easily be found, is totally replaced by virtual plans of mirrors, capable of exercising the utopian displacement, and, at the same time, the heterotopian questioning. (…) An unquiet, yet subtle space, even ludic to an extent, is formed. There, the materials and the landscape reappear as flying signs that let the space play the main role in the theme to be observed, inseparable from the observer.” (R. M.)

“Phantasmagories of this place are produced, showing once more that the landscape is less matter than it is idea, less nature than artifice, a cultural fact inherited and reproduced.”(R. M.)