Architects paint mural urging love for planet

A GROUP of architects set out to paint a 50-meter wall in Mandaue City with images of countryside life.

Richard Abella, president of the United Architects of the Philippines (UAP)-Datu Lapu-Lapu Chapter, said the mural they are working on aims to convey the need to protect the environment.

We only have one planet. We have to protect it, he said in an interview with reporters yesterday.

Their mural on a concrete wall of the Ho Tien Soy factory is an added attraction in Barangay Subangdaku, where street art enthusiasts led by renowned mural artist Amado Guerrero AG Sao are also doing the countrys first flyover art project.

Subangdaku Barangay Captain Ernie Manatad said he suggested that the architects depict countryside life in their mural painting to evoke the barangays past as an agricultural area.

Subangdaku has become a concrete jungle from being a place of ricefields, he said.

Manatad said the paintings are part of his effort to beautify street walls in the barangays.

Weve chosen walls that are frequently vandalized for the paintings. So far, nobody has vandalized the walls again, he said.

Organization

The UAP, which has about 120 members, started their project on the 50-meter wall last Aug. 31. The wall has a height of five meters.

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Architects paint mural urging love for planet