For five editions, the Logroño International Festival of Architecture and Design, Concéntrico, has been experimenting not only with new public space design proposals, but also with management models.
Within this context, they have established various lines of collaboration. The most recent is a competition for a temporary pavilion that evokes the city's natural heritage and forests for the monumental art biennial, La Forêt Monumentale, in partnership with the Métropole de Rouen Normandie (France).
The proposal by Madrid-based firm Mecanismo was awarded first prize. Their design proposes integrating the forest into the city. The team, led by Marta Urtasun and Pedro Rica, defines their concept as follows:
"We believe that the city and the forest are compatible and share organizational qualities that can make them
complementary. Our objective is to integrate the forest into the city.
The formal naturalization of the panels and their adaptation to the urban environment give rise to an organic and complex space that is nevertheless based on simple geometric rules.
This ecosystem, which we are introducing in the urban void in front of the Saint-Sever Church in Rouen, has the capacity to fragment and expand. In doing so, we create a system that generates an urban forest that citizens can enter and explore—a space that, like in nature, produces clearings, shadows, and a variety of spatial experiences."
The pavilion will open in September 2019.
This article was written by Danae Santibañez. The translation is powered by AI.
