Architecture springs up in the streets. Concéntrico 02
30/05/2016.
[VIDEO] from Cutillas/Tellechea. [Logroño] Spain
metalocus, CLAUDIA CENDOYA
metalocus, CLAUDIA CENDOYA
We do not want to miss the opportunity to offer a review of the Festival of Architecture and Design of Logroño (Spain), which was held the first weekend of May. The initiative has pursued In this second edition the treatment of architecture as an element of urban regeneration and social activation through the insertion seven ephemeral installations in secondary or degraded spaces of the old town of the Rioja 's capital city.
Headquarter of the festival by David Bergasa. Concéntrico 02. Image © Josema Cutillas.
Headquarter of the festival by David Bergasa. Concéntrico 02. Image © Josema Cutillas.
Headquarter of the festival by David Bergasa. Concéntrico 02. Image © Josema Cutillas.
Headquarter of the festival by David Bergasa. Concéntrico 02. Image © Josema Cutillas.
Headquarter of the festival by David Bergasa. Concéntrico 02. Image © Josema Cutillas.
Headquarter of the festival by David Bergasa. Concéntrico 02. Image © Josema Cutillas.
02+04=Alexander Platz by Javier Dulín. Concéntrico 02. Image © Josema Cutillas.
02+04=Alexander Platz by Javier Dulín. Concéntrico 02. Image © Josema Cutillas.
02+04=Alexander Platz by Javier Dulín. Concéntrico 02. Image © Josema Cutillas.
02+04=Alexander Platz by Javier Dulín. Concéntrico 02. Image © Josema Cutillas.
Fragmented courtyard: Architecture for cats by ESDIR students. Concéntrico 02. Image © Josema Cutillas.
Fragmented courtyard: Architecture for cats by ESDIR students. Concéntrico 02. Image © Josema Cutillas.
Fragmented courtyard: Architecture for cats by ESDIR students. Concéntrico 02. Image © Josema Cutillas.
Fragmented courtyard: Architecture for cats by ESDIR students. Concéntrico 02. Image © Josema Cutillas.
Hortus Conclusus by María Beni Ezquerro, Isabel Castillón Gómez & Rocío García Samaniego. Concéntrico 02. Image © Josema Cutillas.
Hortus Conclusus by María Beni Ezquerro, Isabel Castillón Gómez & Rocío García Samaniego. Concéntrico 02. Image © Josema Cutillas.
Hortus Conclusus by María Beni Ezquerro, Isabel Castillón Gómez & Rocío García Samaniego. Concéntrico 02. Image © Josema Cutillas.
Hortus Conclusus by María Beni Ezquerro, Isabel Castillón Gómez & Rocío García Samaniego. Concéntrico 02. Image © Josema Cutillas.
Hidden city by Fernando Abellanas. Concéntrico 02. Image © Josema Cutillas.
Hidden city by Fernando Abellanas. Concéntrico 02. Image © Josema Cutillas.
Hidden city by Fernando Abellanas. Concéntrico 02. Image © Josema Cutillas.
Hidden city by Fernando Abellanas. Concéntrico 02. Image © Josema Cutillas.
Artifacts by Daniel Montes & Sara Canalejas. Concéntrico 02. Image © Josema Cutillas.
Artifacts by Daniel Montes & Sara Canalejas. Concéntrico 02. Image © Josema Cutillas.
Urban livingroom by Gabrielle Vinson, Quentin Devoyer & Edwin Toledo. Concéntrico 02. Image © Josema Cutillas.
Urban livingroom by Gabrielle Vinson, Quentin Devoyer & Edwin Toledo. Concéntrico 02. Image © Josema Cutillas.
Urban livingroom by Gabrielle Vinson, Quentin Devoyer & Edwin Toledo. Concéntrico 02. Image © Josema Cutillas.
Boogie by MAIO. Concéntrico 02. Image © Josema Cutillas.
Boogie by MAIO. Concéntrico 02. Image © Josema Cutillas.
Boogie by MAIO. Concéntrico 02. Image © Josema Cutillas.
Following this philosophy, the more than 20,000 visitors who attended Concéntrico 02 have been given a different view on some centric spaces that are left behind in the everyday life. The needs of inhabitants top the final aesthetic of the artifact, designed mainly from the characteristics of the space they inhabit.
Both the headquarters and one of the interventions were chosen in an international competition. The winning project for the base pavilion, Urban Wedge by David Bergasa, consists on a striking red wedge, which relates to the city with a different dynamic during day and night. Its later stans also serve as a meeting point. María Beni Ezquerro, Isabel Castillón Gómez and Rocío García Samaniego were the winners of the competition for the design of the installation set in the courtyard of Ruavieja street. Their Hortus Conclusus occupies the bleak courtyard with panels representing the local "social fauna" and give more warmth to the space.
The French Gabrielle Vinson, Quentin Devoyer and Edwin Toledo designed the installation Urban Livingroom, a wood set that enables and allows a stop in a transitional space and access to the old town, normally used as a passage. The fragmented court: architecture for cats, by ESDIR students, focuses on the unification of a residual space from the cats which occupy the courtyard of the Museum of La Rioja. MAIO in turn uses the volumetric properties of a “calado” (cellar) to blur its inside in Boogie. The reflection of the tower of St. Bartholomew Church in a tilted mirror is the protagonist of 02 + 04 = Alexander Platz, by Javier Dulín, who proposes a different look to the square without interfering in the normal activity of the square. Daniel Montes and Sara Canalejas, through Artifacts, unify a square in the Old Town by a horizontal and vertically mounted common structural element. Hidden City by Fernando Abellanas, is a conquest by the small of a cloister normally closed to the public.
Both the headquarters and one of the interventions were chosen in an international competition. The winning project for the base pavilion, Urban Wedge by David Bergasa, consists on a striking red wedge, which relates to the city with a different dynamic during day and night. Its later stans also serve as a meeting point. María Beni Ezquerro, Isabel Castillón Gómez and Rocío García Samaniego were the winners of the competition for the design of the installation set in the courtyard of Ruavieja street. Their Hortus Conclusus occupies the bleak courtyard with panels representing the local "social fauna" and give more warmth to the space.
The French Gabrielle Vinson, Quentin Devoyer and Edwin Toledo designed the installation Urban Livingroom, a wood set that enables and allows a stop in a transitional space and access to the old town, normally used as a passage. The fragmented court: architecture for cats, by ESDIR students, focuses on the unification of a residual space from the cats which occupy the courtyard of the Museum of La Rioja. MAIO in turn uses the volumetric properties of a “calado” (cellar) to blur its inside in Boogie. The reflection of the tower of St. Bartholomew Church in a tilted mirror is the protagonist of 02 + 04 = Alexander Platz, by Javier Dulín, who proposes a different look to the square without interfering in the normal activity of the square. Daniel Montes and Sara Canalejas, through Artifacts, unify a square in the Old Town by a horizontal and vertically mounted common structural element. Hidden City by Fernando Abellanas, is a conquest by the small of a cloister normally closed to the public.
More information
Direction
Javier Peña Ibáñez
Organization
Fundación Cultural de los Arquitectos de La Rioja [Cultural Foundation of La Rioja Architects] (FCAR)
Authors
David Bergasa.- Urban wedge. Javier Dulín.- 02+04=Alexander Platz. ESDIR students.- Fragmented courtyard: Architecture for cats. María Beni Ezquerro, Isabel Castillón Gómez & Rocío García Samaniego.- Hortus Conclusus. Fernando Abellanas.- Hidden city. MAIO.- Boogie. Gabrielle Vinson, Quentin Devoyer & Edwin Toledo.- Urban living room.
David BERGASA PASCUAL
David Bergasa Pascual, since 2005, has been collaborating regularly with Blasco y Esparza practice, with headquarters in Tudela and Pamplona, in the drafting of projects and competitions of all kinds. In 2006 Bergasa started his own studio, Bergasa Architecture, based in Alfaro.
During these years Bergasa has also combined his professional career with teaching and research being an associated professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Navarra in the course of descriptive geometry and technical drawing. Bergasa is also as an assistant to the subject of projects in the Master of Architectural Design, at this same school. His research experience is related to the cellars built in the twentieth century in La Rioja Alavesa and La Rioja.
. MARÍA BENI EZQUERRO, ISABEL CASTILLÓN GÓMEZ, ROCÍO GARCÍA SAMANIEGO
María Beni Ezquerro, Isabel Castillón Gómez and Rocío García Samaniego studied Architecture in the schools of Barcelona, Madrid and Valladolid. They are developing their careers in Sao Paulo, Burdeos, Senegal y París.
Maria Charneco, Alfredo Lérida, Guillermo López, Anna Puigjaner. MAIO
MAIO brings together creators to generate ideas and architectural solutions in order to re-imagine objects and sites.
MAIO was founded in 2005. It is currently led by Maria Charneco, Alfredo Lérida, Guillermo López and Anna Puigjaner, architects based in Barcelona, that combine professional activities with academic and research ones.
The works done by MAIO have been published in magazines such as ONdiseño and DETAIL among others. MAIO has been awarded several times, among which stands out: LampLighting Solutions Award 2009, FAD Award finalist in 2007 and 2008, Girona College of Architects Award in 2007, New Working Fields Award finalist in 2009 of the National College of Architects of Spain CSCAE, and finalist of the Arquia/Proxima Award in 2010 of the Architect’s Bank Foundation ARQUIA.
People and others that have collaborated in MAIO projects:
Olga Felip, Josep Camps, Maria Charneco, Alfredo Lérida, Guillermo López, Anna Puigjaner, GMK, Saint-Gobain, Schott, Mecrimar, Construmat-Fira de Barcelona, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Toldos Maillol, Brigadas Municipales del Ayuntamiento de Girona, Aceroid, Lamp Lighting, Rètols Gispert, Metàl·lics Cabratosa, Vallès School of Architecture ETSAV.
