EPHEMERAL ARCHITECTURE CRACK
In the center of the Figueras Ramblas, a large crack more than 150 meters long and four meters high restricts space. “Proxemic Crack,” Figueras, 2015, Xevi Bayona.
EPHEMERAL ARCHITECTURE GENERATOR
They are simply an anthropological experiment, a generator of questions in the public space. The ease of implementation, both economically and in terms of resources, allows us to experiment different solutions, even with a methodological formula, as if it were a laboratory. Hall, the American cultural anthropologist, defined proxemics as the interrelated observations and theories of the use of space as a specialized development of culture. Let me explain: proxemics is the part of semiotics devoted to the study of spatial organization. Transitory art and architecture can be a proxemic test. The installation wishes to ask if it is possible to understand a home without a house. The home is the addition of the formal humanization brought by the mere fact of living, the aggregation of objects and furniture that await the people who inhabit it. Habitare or the home without a house is an installation that highlights the unattached capacity of architecture to create homes and suggests a home without the boundaries architecture can offer. An open question to society in the collective space. The second feature is the capacity to invite us to reflect on our own convictions and do so in public space. The installation will only remain in our memory. The tectonic circle moves with the wind and contrasts with the century-long immobility of the bridge. These metallic tubes create a perfect circle with shiny colors that change with light variations and generate a luminous reflection on the water. A sound sculpture suspended in midair, at a height of 20 meters, hanging from the beautiful bridge built by Berenguer de Montagut over the Cardaner River in the 16 th century. Photo © Xevi BayonaĪ wind chime with 29 bells hangs right in the middle of the central arch of the old bridge in Manresa. “Wind Chime,” Manresa, 2021, Xevi Bayona. Transitory art and architecture modify the heritage narrative and shape culture. They can generate an urban narrative in a period of time that modifies the psyche of the observer and therefore modifies the psyche of society. The experience of transitory art and architecture tells us a story that will totally change our perception of the space that has been intervened. A very powerful formula nowadays that I would prefer to define as transitory art and architecture, with five distinctive features.īoth allow us to interact with this heritage without having the need to physically or permanently modify it, while modifying the understanding we have of it. It is possibly a non-standardized formula, halfway between architecture, art, performance and experimentation. How can we act in this culture that has already so much built space?Ĭan constructions or installations that lack that eagerness to last be called architecture? Where is the boundary between architecture and ephemeral architecture? How does this architecture fit in any space? The so-called ephemeral architecture is capable of being transitory by definition: it varies between two consecutive stationary regimes for a short period of time. This architecture has always had the urge to last, and by addition and reiteration has built our world, conceiving our heritage. It has built our environment, our cities and has even generated the mind map that draws our landscapes. “We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.” Friedrich NietszcheĪrchitecture has constructed the physical map of our society in order to develop its social activity.
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