SUPERCHARGER
Bouçã Reservoir / Município de Pedrógão Grande

Portugal 2023 – 2026

Public Artwork / part of Landscape Together Project

Funding: CREA Creative Europe

Team: Karsten Huneck, Bernd Truempler, Alice D’Andrea, Erika Kitabayashi

Supercharger is exploring the duality between natural and man-made environments. Through a thorough research of the area around Pedrogao including the input by the municipality, professionals such as geographers as well as residents it became apparent that the area is dominated by man-made structures such as the dams, the water reservoir as well as the monoculture of eucalyptus planting. This notion of “artificially” is the overarching element that is expressed in the work of Supercharger. The reservoir is seen as a storage system for energy and therefore acts as a battery.

The Supercharger communicates this theme forming the symbol of a battery known from physics, a graphical interpretation of the two poles plus and minus. The interactive work will act as a communicator, bringing people together through play, sport, performance and art.

The artwork transforms its location into a gathering place for the local inhabitants as well as tourists in the area around Pedrogao on the macro level, and Atalaias on a micro level.

LANDSCAPE TOGETHER is an European project funded by Creative Europe, a journey meant to create a dialogue between heritage and contemporary art at the heart of rural Portugal

Landscape Together partners are:

Museo Chillida Leku (Spain) Direção Regional de Cul-tura do Centro (Portugal), Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco (Applied Arts, Agrarian, and Education – Portugal), KHBT studio (Germany), Portuguese municipalities: Proença-a-Nova, Oleiros, Sertã, Pedrógão Grande and Idanha-a-Nova, Politecnico di Milano (Architecture Department, Italy), Universidade de Coimbra (Architecture Department, Portugal), Atelier Yok Yok (France), Aedes Architecture Forum (Berlin), Turismo Centro de Portugal

Coordinators: mag marques de aguiar