In the next 15 years, the world cities’ population will increase 70%. It is the first time in history that we face this kind of brutal increase in such a short period. It means we’ll need to define strategies to accommodate this population faster than ever. At the same time, there’s a growing need for an affordable immediacy from an accelerated society that everyday uses products and services of companies like IKEA, Uber and Airbnb. These (new) scenarios, seemingly unrelated, have one thing in common: they both appear to set up a call for pragmatism and both place the same challenge to architecture: time and physical resources optimization. That’s the Key of SUMMARY’s work.
In this lecture, Samuel Gonçalves will present part of this work, keeping the focus in the conception, building and using processes rather than in the results.
Samuel Gonçalves is the founder of SUMMARY, an architectural studio created in 2015 in the Science and Technology Park of University of Porto, Portugal.
Seeking the balance between pragmatism and experimentalism, this young studio aims for solutions to answer a prominent challenge that the contemporary world places to architecture: how to make the construction act an increasingly summary process?
In 2016, SUMMARY was selected to present the work “INFRASTRUCTURE-STRUCTURE-ARCHITECTURE” at the main exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.
In 2017, SUMMARY received the RED DOT AWARD for the “habitat” category.