APRDELESP

AGO Projects presents Accesorios Espaciales by APRDELESP.

In traditional design processes, electrical accessories are given little importance. They are commonly added last, after designing walls, ceilings, floors, and sometimes, even after tables, sofas, or chairs. Their placement generally follows standardized criteria: an outlet near a desk, 30 centimeters high, or a switch near the entrance of a room, 120 centimeters high. Architects draw electrical accessories on floor plans with a symbol that does not represent their shape, color, or texture. Even in the case of an unusual electrical accessory, the variations are superficial: instead of having a white plastic switch, it is made of stainless steel, or instead of a chromed metal plate, it is made of blue ceramic.

Through Accesorios Espaciales, APRDELESP explores how to give a more spatial quality to some electrical accessories such as switches, outlets, extensions, and light fixtures. Each spatial accessory consists of a metal plate with unusual proportions designed to integrate a series of commercial elements such as a basket, a bottle opener, a candleholder, a caster, a coat rack, a cup holder, a hook, a lamp, a light socket, a magazine rack, a mirror, a plant holder, a ring, a shelf, a table leg, etc.

Spatial accessories blur the differences between space, furniture, ornament, and accessory. Their heterogeneous design makes them incomplete objects capable of receiving outside elements to integrate them momentarily, suggesting and facilitating other interactions without prescribing all possible activities.

This ambiguity broadens the possibilities of improvisation, provokes a more complex relationship between people and objects, and opens the possibility of experimenting with other uses. Presenting a conventional object in a strange way dislocates everyday life, allowing us to see things differently.

–AGO Projects