IaaC’s Pavilion developed, with Anupama Kundoo, for BCN Re.Set installation, organized by the Fundació Enric Miralles in collaboration with Àlex Ollé, as well as the other BCN Re.Set pavilions are currently on display in Berlin at the Aedes Architektur Forum!

The Barcelona Re.Set Exhibition runs from the 18th of October to the 27th of November.

The IaaC & Anupama Kundoo installation, following the concept of FREEDOM, was located in the Plaça de Salvador Seguí. Knowledge provides freedom and progress; and the power of freedom is expressed through reading. This installation consists of three different trees which uproot the middle of Salvador Segui Square. The trunks and branches are made out of steel, the leaves of books, and the earth made of concrete. The public can sit beneath the permeable shadows of the trees to chat, read, and enjoy the gentle breeze created by the air passing through the leaves.

BCN Re.set - Ephemeral Architecture in the Public Space

During next summer the public space of Barcelona will be transformed by six ephemeral installations designed by six international architects, in cooperation with the leading architecture and design schools in Barcelona. IAAC will be collaborating together with the Indian architect Anupama Kundoo for the construction of an ephemeral architecture in Raval – Barcelona.

The architect Benedetta Tagliabue (EMBT/Fundació Enric Miralles) and the stage director Àlex Ollé (La Fura dels Baus) will lead and coordinate this intervention in Barcelona, as part of the events programmed to commemorate the Tercentenary BCN. Within this event some of the most outstanding public spaces in Barcelona will be altered by a series of seven artistic and architectural installations reflecting on such concepts as identity, freedom and democracy.

This initiative will mark the first time that some of the city’s schools of architecture, have worked together on a single project, an educational, architectural and artistic undertaking imbued with enormous symbolic value for the enjoyment of all citizens.

Here the list of the installations:

1. Ciutadella. Central installation. Benedetta Tagliabue (EMTB) and Àlex Ollé. Ciutadella Park

2. Identity. URBANUS (Liu Xiaodu, architect) + La Salle School (URL). Plaça Nova

3. Freedom. Anupama Kundoo + IAAC. Plaça de Salvador Seguí

4. Europe. Urban-Think Tank (Alfredo Brillembourg) + ESARQ (UIC). Plaça del Mar

5. Diversity. Odile Decq. Plaça dels Àngels

6. Democracy. Sir Peter Cook. Plaça de la Mercè

7. Memory. Grafton Architects. + Elisava. Arc de Triomf

Organised by: Barcelona Institute of Culture. Barcelona City Council.