collections
midsummer mouramas
team
La Cuarta Piel
Cella Collective
Public House design
year
2022
client
walking life festival
where
crato
type
spatial intervention, installation
In Celtic Portuguese folklore, the ‘Enchanted Moura’ are described as ma-gical genies who guard watery thres- holds and awaken from their slumber in midsummer to guide humans through moments of transition. Physically, this transition might involve passing through a doorway, window or natural edge (the boundary between earth and water). Spiritually, this transition might be from the unconscious to the conscious state, or from the familiar to the unknown. These dwellings house the ‘Enchanted Moura’, and invite you to enjoy the threshold between land and water & the process of waiting and becoming; bathing, soaking, cooling aided by porous clay, mud and water.