Ephemeral Architecture: Botanic Garden Barcelona
 

 

Intervención Efímera: Jardín Botánico Barcelona

Photos: Adria Goula
How can we transform a space in three hours? How can a simple gesture modify the perception of a space, disappearing short afterwards without a trace? The celebration of a wedding on a rented public park is the excuse to think ephemeral.

The project is a minimal intervention based on the layout of a number of tables; such simple move pretends to modify significantly the perception of a very architectural space, already consolidated. The intervention is a single line that reinforces the qualities of this existing space, although generating a new reading by its attributes and idiosyncrasy.

Therefore, the tables are placed building up a single linear object, such as a snake that wiggles next to the water. Lighting is fundamental. A linear succession of candles outlines the zig-zag axis of this object located within the vegetation. The irregular blinking of the immaterial lighting generates unexpected effects and reflections. The necessary participation of the guests to light the candles as the breeze turns them off, is a a priori decision to make this brief lighting the pacemaker of the installation; an installation that is conceived to be ephemeral.

The intervention transforms temporarily a public space and reconfigures it to construct an unusual scenario, a theatrical set. Use and sense of space are rapidly transformed by a low-cost intervention; by means of architecture, the use of a consolidated space can be altered temporarily, providing 24hour program to very specific public facilities.

 

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