Monday, 4/8/2024
The exhibition "Building in Solid Stone" by Jeremy Pernet, which opens on April 8 at 12:45 p.m., will run until May 8 at EAAD's Gymnasium'UM on the Azurém Campus.
"Building
in Solid Stone" is the result of a research and development project into
solid stone construction in the Portuguese context, developed by Jérémy Pernet
in collaboration with FILSTONE, as a result of the second edition of the
Archetype Award, organised by the North 41° project of the Northern Regional
Section of the Order of Architects - OASRN. The project, located on the site of
the quarry in Fátima, was guided by three principles: The absence of concrete
and steel at the structural level in order to drastically reduce the carbon
impact of the construction, thermal performance by making maximum use of, among
other things, the thermal inertia of stone in order to give credibility to this
type of construction today, and prefabrication, both of the stone blocks and of
the other elements in order to optimise costs, time and resource management.
Jérémy
Pernet is a French multidisciplinary architect, designer and photographer who
has been living in Porto for seven years. His practice is on the threshold
between creating and building, always linked to the issue of sustainability.
During his academic career, which began with product design before moving on to
architecture, he explored themes linked to the reappropriation of the work by
the architect himself, including themes such as the reuse of materials or
self-building. Since 2020 he has been working as an independent architect and
photographer, after several years collaborating with other studios. That same
year he won the Arquétipo award - innovation in the construction industry -
organised by the Portuguese Architects' Association. Following this, he was
invited to lead a research and development project into bioclimatic and
prefabricated construction in solid stone with one of Portugal's largest
limestone quarries.
