PARC SES FEIXES
WELCOME to a UNESCO initiative to preserve the present Ibizan culture, thus creating a future place of historical interest. The UNESCO site will invite tourists and locals alike to share their stories, etching these fables + fantasies in Quartz Glass. [One day the Archive will consume the Parc.] TERMS + CONDITIONS #NOTHINGISFORFREENOW Stories are collected here, we invite you to connect to the Parc and utalise your mobile devices, they will reveal more than you see. Terms + Conditions 1.} What happens in the Parc stays within the limits of the Parc. 2.} Upon entering the Parc you commit all you stories + personal devices to UNESCO who will have permission to reproduce, recreate, re-broadcast all material captured either tangible or intangible. Your identity will remain private. 3.} To access information we ask you to connect to the open wifi network. 4.} The Parc is always under construction so we invite you to mind your step as the result of injury or harm is not the responsibility of the Parc or UNESCO. 5.} Any amendments to this will be made available online, the Parc + UNESCO can change these at any time, whenever the want, no question. 6.} No campfires or open fires allowed.
Site Location + Analysis Clubs and quarry’s: places of arrival and departure, where things are both gained and lost.
Site: Ses Feixes, historical agricultural wetland that is in the throes of UNESCO heritage protection. Close proximity to Ibiza Town and the Harbour a main port that dates back 2,500 years. SITE / SES FEIXES WALLED PLACES [BUILT/EXCAVATED]
EIVISSA
Site views
Irrigation channels from the Feixes still exist
Unesco Heritage Site, behind lies Ibiza Factories
Portal de Feixes
How Ses Feixes once looked
LEGEND
Current Site Condition + Analysis
Welcome Map
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Garden of Truths
Lots of Quiet Beach Dais
ENTRANCE
TO THE PARC, PLEASE READ THE T+C’S
Portal de Feixes Terms & Conditions
ARCHIVING
POWER Energy Copse
DRONES LIFT THE QUARTZ GLASS INTO CATAGORY DESTINATION
FOLLIES
Trending Birds
WHERE STORIES ARE HEARD/TOLD
Longest Possible Route Viewing Track Strata Pool Tea Tower
PROCESSING
+ FILTERING + ENCODING + PROJECTION OF STORIES
ETCHING
OF STORIES INTO QUARTZ GLASS STORIES PHYSICALLY IN THE PARC
Word Silo
Etching Facility
Glass Walls
Lots of Quiet Garden of Truths
Forget-me-not Flower
Beach Dais
TRANSMITTING
+ RECIEVING + CAPTURING OF STORIES
ARCHIVE
Listening Palms
Personal Deveices Microphone-Reed
PARC
YOU ARE HERE!
Entrance
Quartz Archive
Structural Follies
Landscaped Follies
Site
Etching Facility
Superstudio Picnic
Edge of the Wilderness
Go for a Swim - Listen to the Stories
A Big Splash Section night+day
Data processed in core
A Nice Cup of Tea
HaHa They think noone is listening
Energy Copse in a Tropical Storm Revealing the Catagories
Dejeuner sur l’herbe
Parc Ses Feixes
Location of Views - Sections + Snapshots
#imonaboat Life’s a Beach
#imonaboat
Arriving in Ibiza - View from the BA Plane
Energy Copse in a Tropical Storm
LISTENING PALMS Stay Connected! Positioned strategically throughout the Parc, these canny trees are in-fact radio towers that gather and distribute the light. Offering wifi where-ever you might be, just remember to read the T’s+C’s when you connect . . . Some Listening Palms are also Projecting Palms, offering customisable light projection using the Parc App.
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Illuminate at Will Draw attention to a moment and customise your setting by interacting with the stage lights mounted within the Palm leaves. Transmitting + Receiving Radio tower equipment is mounted within the leaves. [Fig. 1] This has a radius of 40m [4G ready].
Real Feel A Mediterranean coating is applied to the trunk, this is UV protected. [Fig. 2]
Always Listening + Watching Wifi signals gather all data packets sent + recived by personal devices, sending them to the Word SIlo.
Hear to Stay The hollow steel trunk is fixed to a steel plate which is fixed to a 12m3 base of concrete.
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ENERGY COPSE The energy copse will gernerate the power needed to run the parc, they will also provide light during the dark, moon-less nights.
SO THE TREES LIGHT UP AT NIGHT + GATHER ENERGY BY DAY NO, NOT MAGIC OLED TECHNOLOGY
LONGEST POSSIBLE ROUTE Take a slow walk through the parc, have a long conversation, admire the wild-life, find a good spot to sit and nurse your hangover.
HAHA THEY THINK NO-ONE IS LISTENING
Strategically Placed Microphone-Reed
VIEWING TRACK Maintain that beach body on this graded running track, or have a picnic amongst the top of the rushes...
SO THE PAST IS HERE TOO YOU MUSTN’T FORGET THAT FEIXES WETLANDS
Superstudio Picnic
Bird drone
Energy Tree Leymus mollis Carex macrocephala Ligusticum scoticum Microphone-reed
Pao eminens Pucinella nutkanensis
Promanade
Seating levels Charging Point
Power cable ducts Wetland water filters through sand
Water drainage pipes
Sand & gravel
Etched Archive Little egret
Apricaria Microphone-reed
Calamagrostis canadensis Rushes / Water Rushes
Peat Power cable conduits
1m
BEACH DAIS The Beach Dais offers enhanced beach features, with levels of seating that include charging points, a large sea stage and the Parc wifi. Performances are held each day in the summer, locals organise lowtide performances of favourite plays during winter months. Lighting is provided via the Energy Trees and projectors + speakers mounted upon the Listening Palms.
Pulling the music behind them, the floating stage for club promoters.
Life’s a Beach
THE SEA IS A STAGE THE BEACH IS THE AUDIENCE NOW YOU STAND, PARADE WE ALL WATCH YOU
Watch the Story. The sea is maintained at a depth of 3ft creating a large stage to watch the current culture to play out. When the tide is out this becomes a place to watch local plays. Seating, Sunning Each level provides a 2m deep platform with 500mm of sand. Allowing for both seated and prone positions when viewing. Water from the Feixes filters through, keeping the sand cool. Main Promenade. Linking the Harbour + Parking to the centre of Ibiza is a stretch of sand, interspersed with Quietest Room beach huts. Power-up. Power sockets are located within waterproof housings every 5m along the beach seating.
GARDEN OF TRUTHS The Sand Dune Domes act like neolithic stone circles, reflecting sounds from other conversations [amplified by speakers set into the structure]. The intimate circular form invites you to sit in groups, knees together, until the fantasies fall from you.
COLLECT YOURSELVES IN GROUPS BE IMMERSED IN THIS GROUP SHOW + TELL
Dejeuner sur l’herbe [des verites]
Other Peoples Fantasies [speaker] Like a Mirror Sandstone Highly Polished to reflect light from personal devices Listening in [microphone] HUSH Sand absorbs excess sound, to cloister each dome Forget-me-not Storage Flower
All around you stories are being planted, a new type of flower in the wetland. Pluck one out, scan the stories on your device. Take one home, put it in your hair, give it as a token.
Form-work creates a void in which the sand is poured, followed by the bacteria.
A mesh of steel gives structural integrity. > Saturating sand in the micro-organism Bacillus Pasteurii causes the sand to become sandstone. The process takes 24 hours after which the bacteria dies. > The Speakers + Receivers are placed in the form-work, then filled with sand from the Quarry’s,before the bacteria is flushed through. > Due to the process each dome will have its own unique properties.
LOTS OF QUIET ‘beach huts’ Sunk into the sand of the beach, these huts are constructed in a similar fashion to the Sand-Dune Domes. Their convoluted form acts to absorb sound, and is extruded up, creating a small opening above for limited light. Each corner is designed for one person to sit and invites personal reflection.
FORGET THEM CHECK THEM UPLOAD OR DELETE TROLL OR CRY
Let it all out
night day
Section
The future is just a reflection of the past
STRATA STRATAPOOL POOL++THE THEHILLS HILLS Excavate Harbour for Beach Dais
Layer Debris on North West of site
Mix with Concrete for Pool Edge
Top with Soil + Plant Rushes
Add Pool Glass
Stories Played Underwater
THE HARBOUR DEMOLITION IS LAYERED UP CREATING ‘THE HILLS’ THEN A POOL IS INSERTED WITH GLASS WALLS “DIVE INTO HISTORY”
Go for a Swim - Listen to the Stories
A Big Splash
Layers + Tales 1:20
Glass Tiles [cap] Insulation [250mm] Horizontal + Vertical Reinforcement Glass Wall [200mm] The Hills Layers of the Harbour Excavations. [600mm] Concrete ‘section’ Layered concrete made with different aggregates from the Harbour demolition. Lubell Underwater Speaker Wireless control, 200Hz-20kHz Frequency response Reinforced Concrete Slab [150mm with welded wire mesh] Strip footing, Reinforcement + concrete Piles
TEA TEA TOWER TOWER Experience the feeling of being head-and-shoulders above the rest. Do a spot of Bird Watching [binoculars not included]. DIrections: Jump off the main path, push apart the reeds, find the opening, clamber up the spiral stairs, walk to the end of the plank. Survey the Scene. Stare at you reflection in the pool. Jump. Return to the path, nice and sodden.
BE TOGETHER, AND ALONE BE CONNECTED BE AN INDIVIDUAL DRINK SOME TEA
A Nice Cup of Tea
WORD WORD SILO SILO A lung that survives on the stories, the silo has a central core that houses the processors, which fill with the stories gathered from the Parc. The shiny skin is kept inflated via a wind-catcher, the pressure created by the hot air from the processors. Inside the stories are projected real time as they are encoded ready to be etched onto the Quartz Glass in the Etching Facility.
Listening Palms Capture Stories
Stories Processed in Core
Core Cooled via Wind-catcher
Heat from Processors Fills Baloon
Baloon Space filled with Mist
Projectors Play Processing Stories
WINTER
Prevailing Wind
Heat is directed through the lower processors to warm the populated area.
During the winter local residents could create a sauna by filling the processors with their stories and heating up the misters.
Heat is directed through the higher processors to keep the populated area cool. Mist also cools the space.
In the summer the Silo would be more popular on cooler days, and at night.
A concrete structure supported with a steel frame.
Windy days would ruffle the Mylar but the fixings at top and bottom would prevent it from caving in. The wind catcher would also fill the space up, creating a resitance force.
STRUCTURES
SUMMER
Prevailing Wind
Partly Inflated walk the plank into the only-just-past between the reeds, the rushes, the whispers
At night people come and party in the light and the sound, that is simply the moment that has just passed...
DATA IS PROCESSED IN THE CORE THE SKIN BALLOONS UP WITH MIST KEEPING THOSE PROCESSORS COOL SO LETS PARTY IN THE MISTY BIT FULL OF THE STORIES FULL OF THE LIGHT
Entering the Silo 1:20
Mist + Projections within the Silo Reflective Mylar Reinforced with wire thread A-Frame with Cross Bracing Creates a stable structure around the edge and fixes the Mylar securely to trap the air. Sandstone concrete Floor With Coffers. Gives thermal-mass to keep lake bed cool.
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Concrete column w/ Pile Foundations Marshy ground will require pile foundations. Limits disruption of habitat.
Mylar connection + A-frame Structure 1.5
ETCHING ETCHING FACILITY FACILITY
Bird Drone Is it a bird? Is it a drone? Holding glass sheets of stories to be deposited within the Parc, within the classifications. HOLOGRAMS create illusions, dissolutions. Excavation Sand from the nearby quarry’s is piled up. Receiving Encoded stories are received from the Word Silo. Images are sent to the BillBoards.
Melting The silica sand is place in a crucible and fired in a gas furnace at 2,300’C. Casting The melted silica is poured into a mould to cool. Etching The Quartz brick is then placed into the etching machine to be covered with stories. Placement The Quartz brick or Forget-me-not Flower is then placed within the Parc by a Bird drone. Cooling These towers allow for windcatcher and stack effect cooling, the Bird Drones also fly out of here. Billboards provide a vision of the past Which is also a vision of the future. This uses an LED screen which shows the day passing.. but that day might be from a year ago, or yesterday. Either way, its not now.
Process
Separation The Sand is put through a sieve which separates the sand from the silica.
LOTS OF SANDSTONE QUARRYS QUARTZ GLASS LASTS FOREVER ETCHING ON THE CAPTURED STORIES STORIES THAT WILL LAST FOREVER
the ARCHIVE Once placed within the parc, the quartz bricks form fragmented walls. Information is arranged by Category, these can be viewed through the mobile device. Reading the data bricks is also done via a personal device. Eventually the wetland will be full of the past, but instead of rushes and reeds, porous walls will sway in the wind.
INFORMATION IS BEAUTIFUL ITS ALSO UNSTABLE AND EASILY FORGOTTON
Revealing the Categories
The Walls Begin to Take Shape as Fantasies, Fables, Truths and Fears fall from the Visitors and their Devices.
Exploring the Stories 1.5 Quartz Data Brick Etched on both sides with stories to read and interpret. Archive Scaffolding Clear cast acrylic tubes are fed deep into the ground, supported with a concrete footing akin to the roots of the rushes. Keeping the Gap Clear silicon stoppers are placed below the brick to hold it in place. Device = Interpreter Much like the Bible translates stained glass windows, the Personal Device translates the etchings, bringing the stories to life.
The Archive Grows
What is the future of the past? Stories fill virtual walls, these fill large elusive data centres, data centres are private, the stories are public, these private realms have a short lifespan - suddenly our culture is erased by a digital dark-age. Meanwhile a Wetland is recovered and people come to it and the stories they have are taken from them and shared but in fact its not just a Wetland, it was destined for something else, an archive and if you wait for a glitch you might see it, until it finally becomes the ruin it was meant to be... An Archive, A Parc, A Monument to Ibiza.
The Ruin it Was Always Supposed To Be Google Street View from the Car Park [in the Evening]
The Edge of the Wilderness
lost truth, known fantasy sense familar, forget nothing