Text: Elian Chali

This description is not about the composition of the artwork, is on the point of the city where it is located. São Roque neighborhood is located between the ocean and the highway. In this neighborhood, is located this building belonging to a number of social housing. I was surprised by the proximity to the beach and accessibility for cars and yet be considered as an area of low relevance to Ponta Delgada.

The relationship between social housings areas and the city has historically been a problem. The location and the public transportation are essential for social inclusion and contradictorily this space has both features but with a defect, is located in a death space of the city better known as non-space.

Is an oppressive act to place next to the highway and routes a lot of homes to live?
Can you transform a dead space in a friendly place?
Reconditioning the area enables the city to extend it's horizons?
The effect of expanded space created by the ocean makes it easier to endure these condominiums?
"Sandwich" is the part of the middle, is the clash between man-made and the vastness of the ocean. It is that which has no explanation. It is a vibrant empty space that bothers to the common citizen.