"On a promontory in eastern Portugal overlooking the Hispano-Portuguese plateau and the gorges of the Rio Erges, a spherical installation sits amid brush and old stone walls. A project of Paris-based studio Atelier Yokyok, "Ninho Globo" is made of a local black rock called schist. The material lends a dramatic effect in contrast to the sky and the windswept area of Salvaterra do Extremo, a town nestled in this rocky area bordering Spain."
"Atelier Yokyok is a four-person design studio founded by architects Samson Lacoste and Luc Pinsard and joined by Laure Qaremy and Pauline Lazareff. Evocative of Andy Goldworthy 's slate interventions in the form of portals and cones, "Ninho Globo" evokes a nest, a planet, or a giant seed pod tumbling through the landscape. Its title translates from Portuguese to mean "globe nest," and its stark, otherworldly beauty challenges how we think about places of comfort and safety."
"The installation invites visitors to step inside and pause, meditate on material and the surrounding environment, or simply get out of the wind. Atelier Yokyok chose a sphere to evoke celestial bodies and "an awareness of the planet as a shared place," the team says. "It recalls its mineral origins...It embodies both stability and potential movement, gravity and balance. It conveys a sense of permanence, while engaging the body of those who experience it in a physical and spatial relationship.""
Ninho Globo is a spherical pavilion constructed of local black schist perched on a promontory in eastern Portugal overlooking the Hispano-Portuguese plateau and the gorges of the Rio Erges. The studio fashioned the sphere to recall nests, planets, and seed pods, creating a nest-like refuge on a former pig farm characterized by dry-stone pens and granite bedrock. The work contrasts dark mineral surfaces against the sky and windswept landscape of Salvaterra do Extremo. The installation invites visitors to step inside to pause, meditate on material and environment, or shelter from the wind. A deep jagged bisecting canyon mirrors surrounding terrain.
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