SELFIE WALL

The Selfie Wall
Lisbon | Portugal

The Selfie Wall is a vertical “painted scape” in which there are a great variety of silhouette and funny drawings proposing and suggesting different positions for interactions and photography.

It is a 2d configuration that only by painting and drawing shapes it adds a new function to an existing wall.
It is a colorful, playful and very suitable for placemaking for renewing urban contexts.

Selfie Wall official movie | 100A Chanel

This project it is one of the first that we have done, It was developed in our shanghai studio yet executed and build in Lisbon Portugal for a private event in 2014. It is only a prototype since it was there only for a few days amusing people in the event.

Among the proposed functions there are an artist spot, a meeting point, directional arrows, hairstyles silhouettes for selfies and many more funny shape that suggest interactions with the wall and also among the visitors.

This project provides opportunities of constant transition between the virtual and the material world.

It is especially interesting how projects like this one create a considerable impact in the social media since it invites the user to take pictures and upload them with a particular hashtag. It became a shortly yet significant landmark of the virtual space.

The project can have a permanent or an ephemeral spirit. It is a colorful, playful and renewed image that invites to experience the space from an unexplored perspective.

Credits

PROJECT NAME: Selfie Wall
DESIGN: 100 Architects (Shanghai)
DESIGN TEAM: Marcial Jesús, Madalena Sales
CLIENT: Undisclosed
STATUS: Built
LOCATION: Lisbon, Portugal
COMPLETION: 2014

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