Memorial de Ares

Memorial de Ares, experiences told from space.
A memoir is a diary, an account, and “ares” here is understood to mean places (as we recognize in the expression “to change airs”). It is also, and above all, a reference to Machado de Assis’ magnificent play “Memorial de Aires”.
What motivates the program, which, along with others, revolves around architecture, is precisely the relationship with issues that have architecture at their core, even when they come from other quarters.
It will always be more interesting to look at these issues in the moments before they are disciplined, that is, before they become (the discipline of) Architecture.
So, before it: space – which everyone knows what it is, and everyone deals with, without needing to be an architect – and also construction, understood in the sense of a thing that is the expression, the materialization of an idea (a thing without matter). Construction is also a subject that is not exclusive to architects: a tailor builds; a pastry chef; a musician; a carpenter; a writer.
Discovering in the memory of others, memories of specific places of special experiences, with some peculiar circumstance of space – of the qualities of the space, its acoustics or its light; its “energy” or smell; its sense of being cozy or incredibly open and almost infinite… a memory – even if distant and faded – of childhood where the sound of a melody or a noise, or of voices, that marks and transports.

This program has sound and editing by Francisco Petrucci.