Conéntrico 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, Conéntrico 04, takes place between April 27 and May 1, 2018, in the Historic Center of Logroño. The festival invites visitors to explore the city through installations, exhibitions, meetings, activities, and performances that connect venues, plazas, streets, courtyards, and hidden spaces that usually go unnoticed in daily life. Fernando Cruzado, Julia Días, Francisco Javier Fernández, and Ane Villaverde bring meaning to the landscape of La Rioja, highlighting its textures and rhythms to raise awareness of the territory.
Description from the team. Fernando Cruzado, Julia Días, Francisco Javier Fernández, and Ane Villaverde, with Entrever, are the winners of the competition launched by Conéntrico 04 to design the intervention at Viña Lanciano for Bodegas LAN.
Through their Conéntrico intervention, the team seeks to rise above the ground, creating a landmark visible far beyond the borders of La Rioja. A calling from the site, a “there is something over there”—something we look at, point to, and which forms part of what we call landscape. A network of red lines creates a vertical thicket, crowned by an ambiguous cloud that, like the trees along the riverbank, sways with the wind. The landscape of La Rioja is not just land; it is also made of textures and rhythms. The lines of the vineyards envelop us, creating a green wall on both sides of the path, or generating a series of rows that slowly reveal what lies behind them as we walk. Thus, the Entrever intervention is also a path to be experienced—an installation that envelops and invites exploration, playing with presence, sight, and concealment.
To rise above the terrain and create this landmark in the landscape, helium balloons were used. These form a floating, ephemeral structure that rises up to 10 meters above the ground. These balloons, measuring 90 and 80 centimeters in diameter, are connected by a transparent nylon fishing net. Highly lightweight and resistant, the net provides the assembly with the necessary stability and durability against the wind. The material chosen to tie these nets to the stakes is a red plastic tape which, like the net, meets the requirements of being both lightweight and strong.
The lower part, the path, consists of a line of wooden stakes that forms a 35-meter-long curve. The stakes, arranged randomly along this strip, form areas of varying density, allowing us to catch glimpses of what lies behind or even pass through them. The material used is 18-millimeter plywood, provided by the festival in collaboration with the company Garnica.
Location: Viña Lanciano at Bodegas LAN. Access from Barrio El Cortijo.
This article was written by Javiera Barbosa. The translation is powered by AI.
