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ABOUT
Location:
Omepete, Nicaragua
Project Year:
2020
Programme:
Dance Temple
Team:
Tiago Vieira de Sousa
Vessel
The Vessel was born from movement. Designed as a sacred event space for dance and collective celebration, its form echoes the fluid rhythm of a whirling dervish, the skirt of a Sufi dancer caught in perpetual motion, frozen into architecture.
Built on the volcanic island of Ometepe, surrounded by lake and jungle, the structure is rooted in the earth while reaching upward. Its geometry was designed to hold and amplify collective energy, creating a contained field where movement, music, and presence can merge.
A space that invites the body to forget the mind. Architecture as invitation to joy.
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