A WATERFALL FOR AMPOSTA
03/10/2012.
By Ana Morcillo & Jonathan Rule. [Amposta - Tarragona] Spain. 1-31/10/2012
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Something that begins to characterize Spanish architecture, (forgetting past and present tears), is his wit and brilliant realization of a low budget proposals. Today we present the first award won by the team led by Ana Morcillo and Jonathan Rule, an art installation on the suspension bridge of Amposta creating a visual and audible threshold between city and nature.
Amposta suspension bridge Proposal by "Ana Morcillo and Jonathan Rule" Study. Photography by José Luís Sellart.
Amposta suspension bridge Proposal by "Ana Morcillo and Jonathan Rule" Study. Photography courtesy from the authors.
Amposta suspension bridge Proposal by "Ana Morcillo and Jonathan Rule" Study. Photography courtesy from the authors.
Amposta suspension bridge Proposal by "Ana Morcillo and Jonathan Rule" Study. Photography courtesy from the authors.
Sketch of project. Amposta suspension bridge Proposal by "Ana Morcillo and Jonathan Rule" Study. Photography courtesy from the authors.
Sketch of project. Amposta suspension bridge Proposal by "Ana Morcillo and Jonathan Rule" Study. Photography courtesy from the authors.
Project details. Amposta suspension bridge Proposal by "Ana Morcillo and Jonathan Rule" Study. Photography courtesy from the authors.
Amposta suspension bridge Proposal by "Ana Morcillo and Jonathan Rule" Study. Photography courtesy from the authors.
Details. Amposta suspension bridge Proposal by "Ana Morcillo and Jonathan Rule" Study. Photography by Mariano Caballero González.
Details. Amposta suspension bridge Proposal by "Ana Morcillo and Jonathan Rule" Study. Photography courtesy from the authors.
Amposta suspension bridge Proposal by "Ana Morcillo and Jonathan Rule" Study. Photography courtesy from the authors.
Project drawings. Amposta suspension bridge Proposal by "Ana Morcillo and Jonathan Rule" Study. Photography courtesy from the authors.
This summer, as she told us yesterday, Ana read here the publication of the contest proposed for this project, and said and done, they took part and won. A nice idea and brilliant execution in its result, which emulates and reinterprets some proposal by Olafur Eliasson at the Brooklyn Bridge in Manhattan, in Jonathan's city. In this case the visual threshold is important but we are sure it is much important the sound, given the characteristics of Amposta. Hat tip and our congratulations!
"The proposal for the suspension bridge of Amposta intends to make the water of the river Ebro the protagonist in the installation. The waterfall makes reference to the constant movement of the river and at the same time creates and visual spectacle from the river banks (city and nature). On the other hand, the sound of the falling water transforms the bridge into a space of transition, an audible threshold between two worlds: the urban and the natural. The attention of the spectator is captivated by a sensorial world that invites the exploration the visual, audible, ambient and material dimensions."
First Prize XYZ Pont Penjant d' Amposta.
THE WATERFALL
Team.- Architects: Ana Morcillo Pallarés, Jonathan Rule. Collaborators: Elena Martínez Sánchez-Dehesa, Mariano Caballero González, Vicente Solano González.
Client.- XYZ Convocatòria d´Instal.lacions a emplaçaments singulars a les Terres de l´Ebre.
Area.- 30 ml.
Budget.- 5.000 euros. Lead time of installation: 15 days.
Venue.- Pont Penjant d´Amposta (Tarragona). Spain.
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ANA + JONATHAN MORCILLO + RULE
Ana Morcillo Pallarés [Cieza, Murcia, Spain. 1980] architect, ETSAV and Jonathan Rule [Brooklyn, New York. 1980] architect, ETSAM and March I, Harvard GSD, along with José Morcillo Martínez founded the studio Morcillo+Pallares arquitectos in 2005. The studio had won various public competitions both nationally and international, including a center for the performing arts for the Region of Murcia (2008), a bicycle loft in Brooklyn (2008) and a hotel in Cieza (2011). Ana Morcillo is currently at ETSAM working on her doctoral thesis: “New York: the revitalization of public space”. The diseration studies the public space of New York between the 1950´s and the present.
Jonathan Rule and Ana Morcillo Pallarés on Amposta bridge, with their work-proposal. Photography by José Luís Sellart.
