iron retangular tube, glass, mirror
each panel: 466 x 703 x 10 cm; occupation area: 703 x 1.850 cm²


This installation was developed for the mezzanine space of the Gustavo Capanema Building, in downtown Rio. The project objective is to establish a relationship between architecture, through its constituent elements, and the perception of the viewer in his/her displacement through space. The structural elements (the columns) and the interface with the exterior (the design of window frames) are the only visual elements that are part of the project.

Project for Capanema Palace consists of four panels built with retangular iron tubes, with glass and mirrors, reproducing the side windows drawings in their actual size. Installed between the four pairs of columns in the center of the space, they occupy the floor-to-ceiling spans, in a position transverse to the windows alignment.



“Despite its discretion, and the sympathetic relationship with the building designed by Lucio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer, Affonso Eduardo Reidy and others, Eduardo Coimbra’s work is, therefore, far from allowing itself to dissolve into the architecture. And if at first glance it hardly exists, it quietly takes shape as we walk through it, emerging in tandem with those willing to practice it.” (Ana Luiza Nobre)