“… History is overlapping events of contradictory aspects, but if they make sense it has value …”

(Journal of Architecture Criticism – antiTHeSe.info – Fifteen Points of L.P. Puglisi – by Sandro Lazier).

This wing of the built complex that makes up the Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro Museum (R.B.P.) connoted today as a Temporary Exhibition Gallery, was held in the nineties (1992). The building had become inadequate both at the level of safety/security as well as functionally and the different functions defined in the Museological Program (P.M.) dictated the Architectural design challenge.

To better understand the feasibility of carrying out a Requalification Project for this area of the Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro Museum, it was also necessary to carry out technical/structural evaluations, the results of which made it possible to adapt this Building to the new functions, “Temporary Exhibition Gallery”.

Through the architectural recomposition of the Property, it was possible to make a space compatible with the needs of the P.M. to be implemented in this place, related to an environment that would provide transformations and the appropriate communications through all of it.

In merit of museographic supports, designed and made in stainless steel and glass, they were thought to combine geometric shapes and proportions in mutual dialogue with the place where they were inserted, in particular to allow greater aesthetic balances when introduced in a building of the 1914, consenting through the “lightness and transparency of its design” that the architecture of this environment, predisposed to receive permanent exhibitions (R.B.P.), became a visible space, giving rise to intrinsic forms of atmospheres in harmony with the “Artist’s Work”.