Concéntrico is an International Architecture and Design Festival that proposes to reflect on the city of Logroño (Spain) through the revitalization of undervalued public spaces. Its latest edition, Concéntrico 04, took place between April 27 and May 1, 2018, in Logroño's Historic Center. The festival invites visitors to explore the city through installations, exhibitions, meetings, activities, and performances that establish a connection between the venues, squares, streets, courtyards, and hidden spaces that usually go unnoticed in daily life. Collectif Parenthèse gives a new meaning to the architectural space by reflecting the construction details of the Palacio Church.
Description from the team. Collectif Parenthèse is a collective of architects who have come together with the common goal of experiencing and practicing architecture differently. They primarily focus on projects that reflect on public space and events. Specializing in ephemeral architecture, scenography, and artistic installations, their practice is always oriented toward experimentation across a wide range of resources, from concept to execution. Working across different spatial and temporal scales, the collective seeks to create playful, evolving situations that foster new relationships with spatial uses and architectural or urban contexts. Public space belongs to everyone, while culture belongs to the individual; therefore, they offer users of an architecture, a neighborhood, or an event a visual, physical, and social experience.
For Concéntrico 04, they bring their research to a unique space: the cloister courtyard of the Santa María de Palacio Church. The cloister's history reflects an accumulation of diverse architectures. The project proposes to magnify the architecture of the church by highlighting every construction detail through a series of reflective elements inserted into the frames of the courtyard's stained glass windows. Cornices, moldings, cladding, columns, openings, the sky, and nature are presented to visitors in an architectural kaleidoscope, producing infinite combinations of fragments depending on the viewer's position and the sunlight.
Location: Cloister Courtyard of Santa María de Palacio. Access via Calle Ruavieja 32 - 34.
This article was written by Javiera Barbosa. The translation is powered by AI.
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