Proscenium of Ephemeral Reflections, inspired by the 2024 Olympics

AWARDED JURY PRIZE AT FAV 2024

‘人’ (rén - person): origin of movement and rhythm, creative organism of art and beauty.

Proscenium: space between the public and the curtain (façade) in a theatrical performance, origin of the Court d´Honneur, between the public and the monumental.

A fractal decomposition of the context that makes up a projected performative space.

An artifact that acts as a scenographic background appears, capable of generating rhythm inside a patio, where the movement of the people around it and their way of interacting with it, is the performance itself.

A façade that shines, attracting passers-by to enter a space until then foreign to them, guiding them across a red carpet to the center of the action. The object generates a situation of approach to the context through the sinuous and rhythmic patterns that reflect the surroundings, generating a background that invites visitors to use that patio as a proscenium, where the background is no longer what is built but what is reinterpreted. 

Two opposing surfaces formed, which evoke movement, the dissolution between what is built and what is not built, a contradiction between what is inside and what is outside, a diagrammatic reference to the person as the origin of movement and rhythm. 

Multiscalar rhythm

The object aims to invite visitors to enter a patio and perform in it, dance, photograph it from different perspectives… Where movement is the program itself. 

Scales appear that could belong to a living animal, with a set of moving patterns that can be understood as a symphony, a puzzle or a poem, light pieces that move with the wind, generating different visual effects in the object and in what is projected. Pieces that reflect the context, generating a background, highlighting the historical and blurring with the sky, generating a performative space through two opposing surfaces. 

There are 7 different types of geometries that are configured together a rhythmic, continuous and dynamic composition. The different materialities, with the passing of the day, project different geometries and shapes on the facades, not only bringing movement to the context but also expressing the diurnal rhythm. 

A space in motion, a stage to act, a proscenium generator of centrality and multi-scalar rhythm.

A living facade

The project was completely done with digital manufacturing techniques and assembled manually. The structure is an opportunity to rethink how can we use the actual technology to produce architecture in a way it was not possible before with new shapes, new materials, unlimited configurations and optimising the available resources to reduce the CO2 footprint.

The kinetic facade was composed by 572 moving laser cutted acrylic pieces with a mirror finishing, these pieces were joined to the main eucalyptus cnc-shaped wood structure with the help of 572 3d printed pieces in recycle PLA that let the pieces to move freely under the efect of the wind.

Rhytmic reflections appears in the courtyard, framing specific details of the national monument that host the proyect, making the visitors aware of the importance and beauty of the palace.

Structure

CNC-Shaped 21mm poplar plywood with eucalyptus finishing.

Facade

572 Acrylic Laser cutted pieces (Mirror, transparent and translucent).

Joinery

572 3D Printed pieces (Recicled PLA) and screws.

Light

Custom LED Lamp 1500lum.

Project Architects

Álvaro González Serrano (González Serrano Studio+) https://gonzalezserranostudio.com

Jennyfher Alvarado Figueroa (J-AF Architecture) 

Organization

Festival des Architectures Vives 

https://www.festivaldesarchitecturesvives.com/

Main Sponsor

Universidad Europea de Madrid