INSÒLIT Festival of Ephemeral Interventions in Palma de Mallorca
25/09/2017.
[Palma de Mallorca] Spain
metalocus, JOSÉ FABERO
metalocus, JOSÉ FABERO
The edition of INSÒLIT 2017, Festival of Ephemeral Interventions in the Patios of Palma, hosts ephemeral creative actions to promote the rich existing heritage of Palma. The Ephemeral Interventions of the Patios of Palma were exposed from the 12th to 16th of July.
Image. Tell me a secret. Image courtesy of INSÒLIT festival.
Plan, section and construction detail. Tell me a secret. Image courtesy of INSÒLIT festival.
Courtyard view. Tell me a secret. Photograph courtesy of INSÒLIT festival.
Courtyard view. Tell me a secret. Photograph courtesy of INSÒLIT festival.
Courtyard view. Tell me a secret. Photograph courtesy of INSÒLIT festival.
Detail view. Tell me a secret. Photograph courtesy of INSÒLIT festival.
Construction of the intervention. Tell me a secret. Photograph courtesy of INSÒLIT festival.
Intervention detail. Tell me a secret. Photograph courtesy of INSÒLIT festival.
Image. Melodias del viento. Image courtesy of INSÒLIT festival.
Image. Melodias del viento. Image courtesy of INSÒLIT festival.
Courtyard view. Melodías del viento. Photograph courtesy of INSÒLIT festival.
Courtyard view. Melodías del viento. Photograph courtesy of INSÒLIT festival.
Courtyard view. Melodías del viento. Photograph courtesy of INSÒLIT festival.
Intervention detail. Melodías del viento. Photograph courtesy of INSÒLIT festival.
Intervention detail. Melodías del viento. Photograph courtesy of INSÒLIT festival.
Image. Picarols. Image courtesy of INSÒLIT festival.
Image. Picarols. Image courtesy of INSÒLIT festival.
Courtyard view. Picarols. Photograph courtesy of INSÒLIT festival.
Courtyard view. Picarols. Photograph courtesy of INSÒLIT festival.
Courtyard view. Picarols. Photograph courtesy of INSÒLIT festival.
Intervention detail. Picarols. Photograph courtesy of INSÒLIT festival.
Intervention detail. Picarols. Photograph courtesy of INSÒLIT festival.
Image. Se abre el telón. Image courtesy of INSÒLIT festival.
Image. Se abre el telón. Image courtesy of INSÒLIT festival.
Courtyard view. Se abre el telón. Photograph courtesy of INSÒLIT festival.
Courtyard view. Se abre el telón. Photograph courtesy of INSÒLIT festival.
Intervention detail. Se abre el telón. Photograph courtesy of INSÒLIT festival.
Intervention detail. Se abre el telón. Photograph courtesy of INSÒLIT festival.
Courtyard view. Se abre el telón. Photograph courtesy of INSÒLIT festival.
The driving force behind the INSÒLIT Festival are the exhibitions of the ephemeral pavilions winners of the competition open to creators from all over the world, thus choosing the best ephemeral interventions that are made for each of the participating patios. In this edition they have received a total of 67 proposals, participating a total of 124 people from all over the world.
The 4 winning proposals from this year are:
- “Tell Me a Secret” - Cosas. Sergio Cañas Vadillo y Sandra Pintos Perez
- “Melodías al viento” - Isabel Villares Law, Júlia Borges Alves, Victor Viscor Pagès.
- “Picarols” - Francesca Neus Frontera Carbonell.
- “Se abre el telón” - Adriana Bravo Salvà, Carlos Morell de España, Maddi Rotaeche Setién.
Description of the project by INSOLIT festival
INSÒLIT is a Temporary Installations Festival in the Patios of Palma that aims to promote the city's rich architectural heritage through temporary creative activities.
INSÒLIT is a cross-disciplinary event that uses cultural action to respond to and bring together three key aspects of Mallorca's territory: culture, heritage and creativity, focussing its efforts on the city of Palma, more specifically its Old Town, where these three factors converge.
Over the course of INSÒLIT, the patios of old stately homes in the Old Town of Palma become active settings for artistic creations that offer a unique experience, a slightly unconventional way of looking at spaces that remain hidden or that, on the other hand, form part of a more common cityscape and end up being invisible. A dialogue is established between the constructed past which endures in time and the permutable and fleeting present.
The patios of Palma’s stately homes are an emblematic ensemble of the city's architecture, homes and heritage. Writers, reporters and travellers all agree that one of Palma's most important architectural reference points lies in its townhouses.
INSÒLIT replenishes these spaces, where neighbours once met and socialised, with life and experiences.
Description of the winning projects.
‘’Tell me a secret’
Shh! Watch out! The patio walls have ears! The patio has always been conceived as the central point of the building; the place where opinions are exchanged and anecdotes are told. A patio is much more than an open space; it's a place that is good for meeting up.
We invite you to come into the "TELL ME A SECRET" booths: a different way of communicating with others, meeting people and telling that secret you never dared to tell anyone straight to their face. But be careful, these individual booths are randomly connected. You never know who you might be talking to.
Would you dare to tell us a secret?
‘’Melodías del viento’’
We invite you to come into the "TELL ME A SECRET" booths: a different way of communicating with others, meeting people and telling that secret you never dared to tell anyone straight to their face. But be careful, these individual booths are randomly connected. You never know who you might be talking to.
Would you dare to tell us a secret?
‘’Melodías del viento’’
Palma's rural landscape is characterised by old windmills that once made it a productive and dynamic territory. Over the years, new technology took their place, leaving them destined to abandonment and in ruins.
However, the mobilisation of the neighbours in defence of the windmills led the City Council to draft a Restoration Plan in order to reassert the value of these elements, suggesting new uses for them that could promote rural tourism in the Pla de Sant Jordi area.
The aim of this installation is to pay tribute to the windmills of Palma, celebrating their recognition as a genuine symbol of Mallorcan culture by constructing new outlooks on this invention. From now on the windmills are open to a reinvention of their roles and meanings in our imagination.
Why not think of them, for example, as musical mills?
‘’Picarols’’
The patio door opens and all our senses begin to transport us through time and space: What can you see? What can you feel? What can you touch? What scents does it evoke?
We're entering a new space where the rural landscape of the countryside features merges with the architectural beauty of the city's stately palaces.
The red colour scheme of the agricultural land, the yellowish cloisters, the blue tones of the vineyards throughout the plain and the green olive trees of la Serra de Tramuntana clothe the architectural backdrop to recreate the scene developing the features.
Plunge into this bucolic landscape and dance to the beat of the sleigh bells, incorporating you as an essential component of the rural scene.
‘’Se abre el telón’’
A certain magic is created when a theatre curtain lifts for the first time...
That's when we see and appreciate what is hidden behind it. Before our very eyes opens a space we must adapt to. New elements and people moving inside the space appear and when we come into contact with them, they help us to understand its set-up. The simple game of interaction gradually reveals this new place.
Perhaps the light and shade piercing the curtains, the summer air and the sound of the ropes moving as if they were on a sailing boat... will transform this patio into your favourite Mediterranean scene, by playing at being the puppet in the scene and the puppeteer of everything else at the same time.
However, the mobilisation of the neighbours in defence of the windmills led the City Council to draft a Restoration Plan in order to reassert the value of these elements, suggesting new uses for them that could promote rural tourism in the Pla de Sant Jordi area.
The aim of this installation is to pay tribute to the windmills of Palma, celebrating their recognition as a genuine symbol of Mallorcan culture by constructing new outlooks on this invention. From now on the windmills are open to a reinvention of their roles and meanings in our imagination.
Why not think of them, for example, as musical mills?
‘’Picarols’’
The patio door opens and all our senses begin to transport us through time and space: What can you see? What can you feel? What can you touch? What scents does it evoke?
We're entering a new space where the rural landscape of the countryside features merges with the architectural beauty of the city's stately palaces.
The red colour scheme of the agricultural land, the yellowish cloisters, the blue tones of the vineyards throughout the plain and the green olive trees of la Serra de Tramuntana clothe the architectural backdrop to recreate the scene developing the features.
Plunge into this bucolic landscape and dance to the beat of the sleigh bells, incorporating you as an essential component of the rural scene.
‘’Se abre el telón’’
A certain magic is created when a theatre curtain lifts for the first time...
That's when we see and appreciate what is hidden behind it. Before our very eyes opens a space we must adapt to. New elements and people moving inside the space appear and when we come into contact with them, they help us to understand its set-up. The simple game of interaction gradually reveals this new place.
Perhaps the light and shade piercing the curtains, the summer air and the sound of the ropes moving as if they were on a sailing boat... will transform this patio into your favourite Mediterranean scene, by playing at being the puppet in the scene and the puppeteer of everything else at the same time.
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Authors
Sergio Cañas Vadillo and Sandra Pintos Pérez (Project “Tell me a secret”). -Isabel Villares Law, Júlia Borges Alves and Victor Viscor Pagès (Project “Melodías al viento”). - Francesca Neus Frontera Carbonell (Project “Picarols”). - Adriana Bravo Salvà, Carlos Morell de España and Maddi Rotaeche Setién (Project “Se abre el telón”).
Organization
Aina Bigorra (architect and cultural manager). - Erik Herrera (architect and urban planner). - Pep Rovira (architect and designer).
Dates
July 12th until 16th 2017
Venue
CAN BORDILS, Carrer de l’Almudaina, 9.- CAN OMS Carrer Almudaina, 7.- CAL COMTE DE LA COVA, Carrer del Sol, 3.- CAL MARQUÈS DE LA TORRE. Carrer de la Portella, 14. Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands. Spain
Sergio Cañas Vadillo - Sandra Pintos Pérez Cosas
Sandra Pintos Pérez - Sergio Cañas Vadillo. Graduate architects from the University of Alcalá de Henares, they have focused their attention on social innovation, participatory processes and design as a tool for change.
Sandra Pintos Pérez has recently worked on "Cosiendo Teután" (Stitching Teutan), a project developed along with anthropologist Elisabeth Lorenzi in Medialab-Prado (Madrid) which used participative processes to create networks, rethinking the public space and making the ongoings in the city visible through textile works. During her training as an architect she has always sought out social integration, both in her degree dissertation ("Espacios multisensoriales para la estimulación temprana en niños" - Multisensory spaces for early childhood stimulation) as well as her Master's dissertation ("Cosiendo Vacíos: Proyecto para la integración de la mujer refugiada" - Stitching empty spaces: a project for the integration of the woman refugee).
Sergio Cañas Vadillo has worked in different studios within the architecture, interior design and graphic design sectors. In 2014, he participated in a research project called "Arquitectura Autre en España 1963-73" (Architecture Autre in Spain 1963-73) with Fernando Quesada López. His interest in sustainable architecture led him to write his degree dissertation entitled "Hacia el 2020, Nearly Zero Energy Buildings" (Towards 2020, Nearly Zero Energy Buildings). One year later he actively collaborated in a participative process, the "Conectando Historias" (Linking Histories) project, undertaken by the City Council of Madrid to restore the Legazpi market.
Sandra Pintos Pérez has recently worked on "Cosiendo Teután" (Stitching Teutan), a project developed along with anthropologist Elisabeth Lorenzi in Medialab-Prado (Madrid) which used participative processes to create networks, rethinking the public space and making the ongoings in the city visible through textile works. During her training as an architect she has always sought out social integration, both in her degree dissertation ("Espacios multisensoriales para la estimulación temprana en niños" - Multisensory spaces for early childhood stimulation) as well as her Master's dissertation ("Cosiendo Vacíos: Proyecto para la integración de la mujer refugiada" - Stitching empty spaces: a project for the integration of the woman refugee).
Sergio Cañas Vadillo has worked in different studios within the architecture, interior design and graphic design sectors. In 2014, he participated in a research project called "Arquitectura Autre en España 1963-73" (Architecture Autre in Spain 1963-73) with Fernando Quesada López. His interest in sustainable architecture led him to write his degree dissertation entitled "Hacia el 2020, Nearly Zero Energy Buildings" (Towards 2020, Nearly Zero Energy Buildings). One year later he actively collaborated in a participative process, the "Conectando Historias" (Linking Histories) project, undertaken by the City Council of Madrid to restore the Legazpi market.
Júlia Borges Alves - Víctor Viscor Pagès Isabel Villares Law
Isabel Villares Law - Júlia Borges Alves - Víctor Viscor Pagès. Made up of three young architects with shared interests, the team is a combination of two Brazilians and one Catalan. Víctor is from Barcelona and trained at La Salle School of Architecture. They met in 2014 when Isabel was in Barcelona for the first time to take the Ephemeral Spaces course entitled “Exhibition Design”, at Barcelona School of Design and Engineering (ELISAVA).
Julia and Isabel are from São Paulo and they studied their degree together at the Cidade School of Architecture and Design. In 2015, they decided to come to Spain to study their respective Master's degrees. Isabel chose to specialise in landscape design. Therefore, she took a Master's degree in Landscape Architecture, while Julia is currently studying a Master's degree in Urban Design, both at the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB-UPC). Throughout their individual careers in architecture, they have acquired experience in different fields of the profession. The team has partnered with numerous associations and coalitions in the world of the ephemeral, like in the production of lighting projects for exhibitions with the Brazilian architect Fernanda Carvalho and participation in assembly of the Colectivo Basurama's leisure facilities for the Gira Cultural festival in São Paulo in 2014. In 2015, Victor and Isabel participated in “A Cel Obert” (Open Air), the second Festival of Ephemeral Installations with an entry entitled "Matiz de Celso" (Celso's Nuance).
Julia and Isabel are from São Paulo and they studied their degree together at the Cidade School of Architecture and Design. In 2015, they decided to come to Spain to study their respective Master's degrees. Isabel chose to specialise in landscape design. Therefore, she took a Master's degree in Landscape Architecture, while Julia is currently studying a Master's degree in Urban Design, both at the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB-UPC). Throughout their individual careers in architecture, they have acquired experience in different fields of the profession. The team has partnered with numerous associations and coalitions in the world of the ephemeral, like in the production of lighting projects for exhibitions with the Brazilian architect Fernanda Carvalho and participation in assembly of the Colectivo Basurama's leisure facilities for the Gira Cultural festival in São Paulo in 2014. In 2015, Victor and Isabel participated in “A Cel Obert” (Open Air), the second Festival of Ephemeral Installations with an entry entitled "Matiz de Celso" (Celso's Nuance).
Francesca Neus Frontera Carbonell
Francesca Neus Frontera Carbonell. An architect who graduated from the Barcelona School of Architecture in 2011, during her first year in the professional world, she worked on international projects at the Miralles Tagliabue – EMBT studio in Barcelona and GRAS studio in Mallorca. Interested in landscape design, she subsequently worked in London at Martha Schwartz Partners and URBAN studios, on projects in Europe, China, North America, the United Kingdom, Indonesia and Africa. She currently resides in the Netherlands and is working on interior design projects in Taiwan, landscaping projects in the United Kingdom and architectural projects in Germany and Mallorca.
She has designed and constructed different ephemeral art installations and furniture by making use of the space's resources. She has a special interest in social design and explores the relation between people, technology and space.
She won first prize for the construction of the Archaeological Museum of Calvià. She also received first prize in the 13th Annual Environmental and Sustainable Project Competition held by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, with her urban wind revolution project, an energy generation system that reuses energy dissipated in the underground transport system.
She has an interest in the discussion on the architectural design of the future and the definition of the next generation. She is also the co-founder of the IS ARCH Prizes for Architecture students, which analyse solutions provided by architecture students within the university framework.
She has designed and constructed different ephemeral art installations and furniture by making use of the space's resources. She has a special interest in social design and explores the relation between people, technology and space.
She won first prize for the construction of the Archaeological Museum of Calvià. She also received first prize in the 13th Annual Environmental and Sustainable Project Competition held by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, with her urban wind revolution project, an energy generation system that reuses energy dissipated in the underground transport system.
She has an interest in the discussion on the architectural design of the future and the definition of the next generation. She is also the co-founder of the IS ARCH Prizes for Architecture students, which analyse solutions provided by architecture students within the university framework.
Carlos Morell de España - Maddi Rotaeche Setién Adriana Bravo Salvà
Adriana Bravo Salvà - Carlos Morell de España - Maddi Rotaeche Setién. Three young architects who trained in Barcelona and Madrid at the Barcelona School of Architecture, Madrid School of Architecture and the Camilo José Cela University respectively. All three were on an exchange year at universities overseas such as the National School of Architecture and Landscape of Lille (France) and the Miguel de Cervantes University in Santiago (Chile). There they found a space to develop artistic variants complementary to the architecture. They graduated in 2015 and 2016, having gained several years of experience in different studios such as Peris-Toral or Duch-Pizà.
Throughout their academic trajectory they received recognition including being selected to exhibit at the Degree Project Show of the XIII Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, and the XXVIII CAP '14 Competition in Chile.
After this stage, they are starting out in their professional careers in both architectural studios and contemporary art. Eager to show their potential wherever they are given the chance, they face new challenges very closely, enriching each other's work. They defend meticulous, detailed and well thought-out architecture on a human scale.
Throughout their academic trajectory they received recognition including being selected to exhibit at the Degree Project Show of the XIII Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, and the XXVIII CAP '14 Competition in Chile.
After this stage, they are starting out in their professional careers in both architectural studios and contemporary art. Eager to show their potential wherever they are given the chance, they face new challenges very closely, enriching each other's work. They defend meticulous, detailed and well thought-out architecture on a human scale.
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