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Ainda hoje de manhã tinha estado entretido a rever o site do atelier PLOT, quando cerca das 23:00 recomendei a visita a uma amiga minha. Para meu grande espanto, o site estava diferente.

Bjarke Ingels e Julien De Smedt, decidiram fechar o atelier que contava com apenas 5 anos de vida. É com muita pena que vejo isto acontecer, pois tenho grande admiração pelo trabalho realizado por esta equipa (enorme) e até pensei em fazer-me ao estágio por lá. No entanto, como nada se perde tudo se transforma… estes dois parceiros surgem dois novos ateliers: “JDS” (Juliens Design Studio) e “BIG” (Bjarke Ingels Group). Todos os projectos realizados anteriormente pelo PLOT encontram-se nos novos sites.

Transcrevo aqui, em homenagem (e por receio que desapareça) o pequeno texto deixado pelo PLOT no seu site:

PLOT was founded in Copenhagen in January 2001 by architects Julien De Smedt and Bjarke Ingels. PLOT was founded in order to develop an architectural practice that turns intense research and analysis of practical as well as theoretical issues into the driving forces of design. A better way to explain the office’s design philosophy and process is to explain its name: a narrative is a series of events, that are tied together in a PLOT. Each event contains insight, drama and beauty in itself, but without the PLOT they risk to fail and become nothing but the sum of the parts. Individually the incidents may seem random or pointless, but joined they culminate in a transcending will. In the same way the PLOT makes architecture more than a random accumulation of toilets and bedrooms. Beautiful details and individual moments get lost if nothing is at stake - if the PLOT is missing.