Sala Ferusic Architects Vibe Cast Carles Sala Relja Ferusic
Sala Ferusic Architects Vibe Cast Carles Sala Relja Ferusic
Sala Ferusic Architects Vibe Cast Carles Sala Relja Ferusic
Sala Ferusic Architects Vibe Cast Carles Sala Relja Ferusic
Sala Ferusic Architects Vibe Cast Carles Sala Relja Ferusic
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Sala Ferusic Architects Vibe Cast Carles Sala Relja Ferusic
Sala Ferusic Architects Vibe Cast Carles Sala Relja Ferusic
Sala Ferusic Architects Vibe Cast Carles Sala Relja Ferusic
Sala Ferusic Architects Vibe Cast Carles Sala Relja Ferusic
Sala Ferusic Architects Vibe Cast Carles Sala Relja Ferusic

Vibe Cast

Vibe Cast invites the audience of Llum BCN 2020 to interact with this vertical installation, designed and built within the ETSAB-UPC, which casts the presence of the public into vibrant shadows on the public space, via a game of reflections. An emergency staircase serves as a scaffold to hold a reflective membrane – and refractive at the same time –that vibrates with the air and translates the light onto the asphalt of the street, in different directions by means of a singular tessellation, to dazzle the participants and cast their shadows into temporary micro-intervals, at Poblenou’s Pallars – Pere IV intersection.

From the object – the staircase  –, the intervention witnesses the dialogue between the subject – the visitor – and the public space through the absence of light – the shadow –. The membrane, which acts as a mediator, through its specular pattern, translates the light from the vertical plane to tackle questions of space, time and citizenship in a language of shadows casted on the horizontal plane. This phenomenon becomes an individual discovery but also a collective experience, while a vibrant atmosphere arises.

(*) This design has been developed within the ETSAB UPC, and led by Carles Sala and Relja Ferusic from SALA FERUSIC Architects.

ARCHITECTS

Carles Sala and Relja Ferusic + Students

SCHOOL

ETSAB - UPC Barcelona Tech

CLIENT

Ajuntament de Barcelona - ICUB

LOCATION

Poblenou, Barcelona

PROJECT DATE

November 2019

CONSTRUCTION DATE

February 2020

AWARDS

First Prize at ‘Llum BCN 2020’ Festival