House of Echoes
Alameda das Fontainhas, Porto
(Happisodes)
Curators
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Alameda das Fontainhas
With House of Echoes, artist and architect Didier Fiúza Faustino reinterprets the typical northern espigueiro (granary), a familiar landmark of the Portuguese landscape and an example of an architecture without architect. Faustino enhances its naive shape — a box with six feet and a roof — and uses recycled materials to propose a sound capsule that works as a venue for music education, a public recording studio, and a stage for concerts and DJ sets.
Designed specifically for the Alameda das Fontaínhas, one of the city’s oldest and most distinctive neighbourhoods overlooking the Douro, House of Echoes is a piece of micro-architecture dedicated to sonic exploration in public space. Here, listening to, making, and recording music are activities open to the community, fostering creativity, knowledge exchange, and urban renewal.
The programme is brought to life through collaborations with faculties of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto and through events under the artistic direction of Lovers & Lollypops.
Opening
25.10.2025 - 17h00
Alameda das Fontainhas, Porto
Designer Didier Fiúza Faustino
Institution Instituto Politécnico do Porto (Filipe Lopes, Jorge Alexandre Costa, Rosa Barros, Nuno Pinho, Aoife Hiney, Luís Castro )
Didier Fiúza Faustino is a conceptual artist and architect whose practice is at the crossroads of art, architecture and design. Operating with Bureau des Mésarchitectures in Paris and Lisbon, Faustino work takes the shape of buildings, installations, sculptures, films, and editorial projects, always to transcend borders of society and creation by exploring the relationship between body and space.
Core Programme
Happisodes
Promoted by the Porto Design Biennale, Happisodes are co-design projects between designers, communities, and municipalities that bring to life, in Porto and Matosinhos, the joy of collectively recognising that the present can be reimagined. They are living, inhabited processes where design gives shape to the common.
Publications
Book publishing is a fundamental part of the Porto Design Bienniale, conveying, through the editing and materiality of the books and catalogues, the concept and curation of the projects.
Constellations
The selected projects are independent and autonomous projects regarding curation, financing and production that engage with the theme of this edition.