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The walls facing the building’s common areas offer a horizontal display that stretches across both floors, in dialogue with the views from every apartment balcony.
In the pool area—a setting that invites connection with water—paths and rhythms emerge, revealing new compositions and possibilities in this interaction. Ferns, mosses, ever-hydrated leaves, and the multiplication of life generate a new ecosystem. Elements such as sound, scent, and expansion across various spatial and temporal dimensions intertwine to create a multisensory experience.
From Mouth to Mouth sets out to be a space that questions how we inhabit time—a reminder that we are made of constant transformations and interrelations.
The snail becomes a mollusk, then turns into a nudibranch.
I discovered nudibranchs through Haeckel’s illustrations. Their shapes seem designed for water to slide over. I read that they are hermaphrodites and, due to their lack of spines or shells, these animals are unable to leave any trace of their existence.
In this project, I want them to leave a trace, and I include them in this fable from mouth to mouth, where what is shared is water—the possibility of continuing life, through whatever mutation it may require.
Molding, mollusk, hair, hand, antenna: the surfaces touch and transmit to one another.
These forms gain relevance through the way water slides over them. As with many plant species, their unfolding and allure respond to the environment surrounding them.
To offer a path for the drops, to slide across forms, senses, feelings, symbols.
One species offers water to an architectural ornament—to a symbol of an era, perhaps? They pass it mouth to mouth, not caring much.
If it rains, the flow increases, and water becomes a great mantle that covers everything—like the motorcycle covers, where we know a bike lies beneath, yet what we see is a new, different presence.
Collaboration in architecture, development, drawings, and renders: Tomás Cetkovich
Scale model making: María Emilia Poy
Water fountain mechanics: Alejandro Gilligan
Render illustration and graphic design: Agustina Fuster
Animation: Agustín Míguez
Live moss in model: Moss.go
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