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5 .4.3 Llum 2015
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Llum 2015
(The text that here follows is an extract from an IAAC text produced in occasion of the project done by the IaaC Research Team in 2015)
The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia – IAAC is an international centre for Education, Fabrication and Research dedicated to the development of architecture capable of meeting the worldwide challenges in constructing 21st century habitability. Based in the 22@ district of Barcelona, one of the world’s capitals of architecture and urbanism, not to mention the European Capital for Innovation (2014), IAAC is a platform for the exchange of knowledge with researchers, faculty and students from over 60 countries around the world. During the days 6th, 7th and 8th of February 2015 in Carrer de Santa Llúcia 1, IAAC had once again the honour of being invited to participate in the Llum BCN Urban Light Festival in Barcelona. Tha patio recreates the intimacy of the existing courtyard, located at Carrer de Santa Llúcia, 1, a space that is full of distinctive elements, among which the lovers palm tree and fountain, as well as the well-known tale of the Saint Eulalia, together fed the concept of Pluja de Llum. The concept of the installation follows a mixture of the elements of the tale of Santa Eulalia, in particular her tears, transforming these into a conceptual rain. A luminescent rain, a rain of light, emanating from one of the protagonists of the courtyard, the palm tree. When entering the courtyard, the visitor is not fully made aware of the scenography that the courtyard beholds. The internal patio area is seamed off, leaving the visitor to meander through the porch of the courtyard, and being able to perceive, through a series of small holes in the sealing of the interior patio, or snapshots, what is in fact happening: the luminescent rain falling from the central palm. Cover - Llum 2015, IaaC Archive Figure 1 - Llum 2015, IaaC Archive Figure 2 - Llum 2015, IaaC Archive 2
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The visitor is then called upon reach up to the superior level of the patio, through a sound interaction system, defining the intensity of the light, and finally opening them to the infinite rain of the courtyard. The visitors look down upon the luminescent rain, into an apparently infinite well – reminiscing the existing fountain -, the courtyard itself, transformed through the implementation of a reflective surface – water flooding the ground floor of the patio – making the patio finally seem never ending through the infinite reflection, as the rain of light itself. Hence Pluja de Llum – or luminescent rain – proposes itself as the dialogue between the intimacy of the existing courtyard, as the tears of a young girl, and the proposed infinity that emerges, reflecting the perseverance of the tale of Santa Eulalia, and finally the festivities invoked by the BCN Llum 2015 festival.
Project Credits:
IAAC | Fab Lab Barcelona Coordinador: Alexandre Dubor IAAC | Fab Lab Barcelona team: Areti Markopoulou, Silvia Brandi, Guillem Camprodon, Rodrigo Aguirre, Anastasia Pistofidou, Anna Popova, Mathilde Marengo, Maria Kuptsova, Sofoklis Giannakopoulos, Leonardo Arrata, Ángel Muñoz MAA02 Students Proposal by: Alessio Verdolino, Alejandro Martinez Del Campo O., Robert Douglas Mckaye, Tobias Grumstrup Lund Øhrstrøm With the Collaboration of: Out Of Format – Mery Glez & TL3 – Ignacio de Juan-Creix y Umbert, Ece Tankal, Carmen Aguilar And the support of: EPSON & POLIMERTECNIC Special Thanks to: Irina Shaklova, Ji Won Jun, Leon Guallart, Lisah Bracke, Nada Shalaby, Samuel Shapiro,Yasmin Hamza, Zunabath Abdul Majid
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