fala installs mirrored pavilion at porto’s book fair

The architects at fala atelier transform a 10-square-meter book fair stand into a spatial installation for Circo de Ideias in Porto, Portugal . Working within a 3-by-3-meter footprint and a limited budget, the project refuses the neutrality expected of a standard exhibition stand.

The structure is assembled from leftover metal profiles of varying sections, repainted in a fresh, almost excessive color palette ranging from acid greens and electric blues to teals and greys. Twenty-four pieces in total are organized around a slightly displaced central column, introducing a sense of instability into an otherwise orthogonal logic. Profiles of the same color never meet.…