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.

In the courtyard of the museum Marés DATA NET is born, another tree next to the existing ones.This new tree, though, is forming an interactive mesh covering the patio of the museum.
You see the installation illuminated but you also find yourselves, as visitors, participating in the project.
The intensity of the lighting of the installation reacts to the location and the density of the visitors through a series of sensors thatracks people´s movement.
This way, visitors are not only observers of a space but participants in its creation, definition and variation.
DATA NET is reflecting a living organism that moves and evolves according to the data generated by the public.

Authors: IAAC
Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia; Rodrigo Aguirre, Silvia Brandi, Guillem Camprodon, Alexander Dubor, Luis Fraguada, Areti Markopoulou, Anastasia Pistofidou.

Lighthig expert: Pablo Martinez.

3d Scanning: Henrik Leander Evers (CITA Copenhague)

Fabric manipulation: Claudio Marza.

Collaboradors: Moritz Begle, Karen Beyens, Alejandra Diaz de Leon, Blanca Duarte, Robert Garita, Anna Popova, Chirag Rangholia, Aldo Sollazzo, Angeliki Terezaki, Sebastian Varela.

Photo Credits: Filippo Poli

IAAC will be transforming the Patio of the Museu Frederic Marès, generating a light mesh whose intesity will var according to the number of visitors in the patio. So come and visit the patio and make the light shine bright!