CLUBE

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Painel is a publication about time. Kind of a calendar, Painel is an almanac which gathers monthly contributions of architectural practices and criticism and its related areas. Part of a research that intends to insert the productions gathered in the visual culture and in the intellectual history of the discipline, Painel is a new beginning among many beginnings.

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In 1872, the Austrian physiologist Johann Nepomuk Czermak inaugurated his laboratory at the University of Leipzig with a silhouetted projection, nearly two meters high, of a still-pulsing frog’s heart, visible from a distance to the audience present in the dark room [1].

Czermak’s inaugural lecture sparked two relevant discussions in the field of physiology: first, the enlarged and collective visualization of the pulsing heart became evidence of the fundamental facts of the discipline, which until recently had been treated as a branch of anatomy, called animated anatomy. At the same time, the development of visual perception tools, gadgets that combined light projection and the succession of organisms, led scholars to see not only affinities between cinematic devices and the kinetic nature of the objects of study in physiology but also fostered expectations for the rapid transmission of all the knowledge the discipline had accumulated up to that moment. There was a hypothesis about the relationship between the speed of information transmission and its pedagogical potential.

Although the totalizing knowledge of any field proved impossible in a short time, and the back-and-forth between the capabilities of machines and the human mind did not turn out to be a simple equation, the search for collective, enlarged, and qualified visualization of the pulsating heart remains.

The map of what we perceive as objects of vitality, and the height they reach in their projections, is reconfigured based on the spaces and times in which we discuss them. If we accept the displacements, distinct desires of landscape coexist: the revolutionary and the cooperative; autonomy and collections of strategies; cultural models and meandering. Just like the idea of discipline, the interviews form an atlas of supposed clarity, quickly overwhelmed by images of domesticity in soft focus, saunas, thorns, toys, and a bloody intruder’s chair. Settling the cloud of points into correctly imprecise coordinates, we have the architecture of an almanac and vice versa.

Isabel Sanchez

[1] Cf. SCHMIDGEN, Henning. “1900 – The Spectatorium: On Biology’s Audiovisual Archive,” Grey Room, no. 43, Spring 2011, pp. 42-65. 2011 Grey Room, Inc. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Architecture

Works Year
Wall–Roof
2025
El Pabellón Ebrio
2025
Picco
2024
The Broken Circle Cabin
2024
3–Trees
2024
Ãopluspinga
2024
Jacó
2023
Villa Dip
2023
Catetinho
2023
Pinati
2022
Rider Spaces Copan
2022
Kubix
2022
Oficina Flávio Império
2021
Centro Cultural e Gastronômico Mascarenhas
2020
Villa Alexandrina
2020
Pole–Hall
2020
The Closet
2020
Casa Nailla
2020
The Stand
2019
Conjunto Habitacional Polvilho
2019
Tabafer
2019
São Vicente
2019
Museu da Água
2019
M
2019
Paysandu
2018
PBPR
2018
América
2018
Jardim Sigrist
2018
Supermercado
2017

Exhibitions

Works Year
Border-Crossing
2024
The Oval Office Or Centre Of Ecletic Conspirancy
2024
Third World: The Bottom Dimension, Lisboa
2024
Third World: The Bottom Dimension, São Paulo
2024
Cabina
2024
Sauna–System
2023
OysterBoxer
2023
BCO
2023
Passe–Bar
2023
Iron Maiden
2022
SPORTDRAPERINGTAYLORINGWEAR
2022
Padaria Pintura
2022
Entrada
2022
Timeline
2021
Depois da Pedra
2021
Disfuncional
2021
Finalmente, Museu!
2021
Claque Claque Claque
2021
A Bruta Flor do Querer
2021
Arquiteturas de Lugar Nenhum
2020
Conforto Prescrito
2019
Duas das Cinco
2019
Rooms, etc.
2019
Please, Do Not Disturb
2019

Objects

Works Year
Menu
2024
Sauna–Sun
2023
Sauna–Star
2023
Sauna–Square
2023
Sauna–Shelf
2023
Sauna–Seat
2023
Log Logo T
2023
Mini Sauna–Seat
2022
Ice Site T
2021
Amostras
2021
Acrilar Chair
2021
Acrilar Round Table
2021
Acrilar Stool
2021
Acrilar Armchair
2021
Acrilar Bench
2021
Acrilar Square Table
2021
Crocodile Shelf
2020
Canto Chair
2020
Canto Bar Chair
2020
Canto Table
2020
Canto Drawer
2020
Foam Series
2020
CL Closet
2019
CL Buffet
2019
CL Table
2019
CL Bar
2019
Vanitas
2018

Publications

Publications Year
Plot 71
2023
Gaveta: Vazio
2023
Revista Rosa: Vigília Rosa
2022
Paprika!
2021
O Turvo: Ed. 01
2020
Carte Blanche N. 6
2020
Revue Fantome N. 3
2019
Unlearning Public Space: Täglich Trendbook
2019
Access for All: São Paulo’s Architectural Infrastructures
2019

About

CLUBE establishes its practice within the production and discussion of architecture as a discipline. Founded as a duo in 2019, the office has been operating since 2022 as a collective organization led by Gabriel Biselli. CLUBE develops projects in collaboration with architects, graphic designers, visual artists, filmmakers, musicians, writers, and other contributors, with the aim to transform shared knowledge into architecture.

© Guilherme Rocha de Oliveira

Gabriel Biselli (Botucatu, 1993) is an architect graduated from Escola da Cidade (2018). He has collaborated with Vapor 324, Brasil Arquitetura, Jean-Benoît Vétillard Architectures (Paris, France), and Metro Arquitetos, as well as participated in architectural competitions with MMBB and Pianca+Urano. In 2019, he co-founded CLUBE. Between 2019 and 2021, he served as an assistant professor at Escola da Cidade. In 2021, he was a PAE assistant professor at FAU–USP. Since 2021, he has been developing his master’s thesis in the Department of History and Fundamentals of Architecture and Urbanism at FAU-USP and is part of the research group Visual Culture and Intellectual History.

Clients and Institutional Partners
Aalvo Gallery
Artworks
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CAMPO
Éditions Carte Blanche
Escola da Cidade
Espaço CC
Esponja
FAD–UBA (DAAD Cátedra Walter Gropius)
Forecast Festival
Galeria Jaqueline Martins
Goethe-Institut São Paulo
Goethe-Institut Rio de Janeiro
Istituto Internazionale di Architettura Per la Cultura del Territorio – I2a
Jacó Cozinha
MAAT – Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia
Manifattura Tabacchi
Mendes Wood DM
Monte
Museu Paranaense – MUPA
NAM – Not a Museum
Picco
Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo
Pinati
Pinga
Pivô Arte e Pesquisa
Revista Rosa
Revue Fantome
Rider (Grendene)
Studio Massan
Tau Cozinha
Universität Stuttgart Städtebau-Institut Lehrstuhl für Stadplanung und Entwerfen

Former Partner and Co-founder
Luiz Solano (2019–2022)

Contributors
Vitor Endo, Kadu Tomita, Daniel Cohn, Alixe Bucher, Thiago Peterhans, Raul Souza, Adele Messiaen, Marcus Deusdedit, Débora Loch, Maria Bourbon Ribeiro, Camila Medeiros, Beatriz Freitas, Yven Dellemann, and Olivia Bueno

Graphic Design
Alexandre Mendes

Coding
Mário Neto