Concéntrico 06 is the Logroño Architecture and Design Festival, open to all citizens and visitors, which invites them to discover and rediscover key spaces in the city's historic center.
The festival was created to respond to the evolution of contemporary architectural practice. While respecting the environment, it transforms it into an inhabited space where the past, present, and future merge. Aimed at a broad audience, it turns residents and visitors into explorers, offering a journey through an unconventional lens.
Among its programming, the festival invites visitors to explore these sites through installations that connect interior courtyards, hidden spaces, and small plazas that typically go unnoticed in daily city life.
Winning pavilions for Escuelas Trevijano, Paseo del Espolón, and Viña Lanciano (Bodegas LAN):
Information Pavilion at Plaza Escuelas Trevijano
Architecture: Ignacio Hornillos and Javier Fernández.
The competition site calls for an optimistic intervention capable of enhancing the surrounding public spaces and buildings, giving the pavilion a powerful symbolic presence that respects and highlights the features of Plaza Escuelas Trevijano. The pavilion rests on the pavement using stone blocks—a physical nod to the Roman era—from which a volume of assembled panels rises 70 centimeters. Oriented toward the festival's points of interest, this volume displays practical information about the activities. Its distance from the surrounding street furniture offers an opportunity to walk around the pavilion and peer inside the oculi.
Paseo del Espolón Pavilion
Architecture: Silvia Bachetti and Agnese Casadio.
The Arch-play installation is an invitation to change our everyday perspective on architecture and the city.
It creates a new playful relationship between the parking strip and the adjacent facades along Muro de la Mata Street. The distinctive architecture of the arch is extracted from its context and turned upside down, with colorful elastic nets in place of arches, creating a hybrid between an oversized urban sofa and a playground. Residents and visitors are invited to crawl, lie down, roll, and jump on the net.
The project encourages people to reclaim urban space through unconventional uses that foster social interaction.
Viña Lanciano Pavilion (Bodegas LAN)
Architecture: Alejandro Ramírez
The four sides of the slender pavilion represent each of the seasons. Rising 7.5 meters above the ground, the vertical element becomes an ephemeral landmark that stands out on the site, contrasting with the green vineyards along the Ebro River. Its exterior faces feature a mirrored skin resembling elegant glass, reflecting the changing environment throughout the year.
The sixth edition of the festival will take place from April 29 to May 3, 2019.
This article was written by Danae Santibañez. The translation is powered by AI.
