Ser Miento

Lemonot + O-SH
Plaza del Revellín
2025

The project begins with a simple ritual: the storing and reuse of sarmientos—the vine branches traditionally pruned in winter to prepare for the next growing season.

Collected from nearby wineries, these bundles of discarded wood—usually burned or left to decay—are transformed into building material. The project celebrates this overlooked residue by creating a theatrical backdrop at the entrance to Logroño’s old town: Plaza del Revellín. Gathered into a curved pile-up, both natural and geometrical, the sarmientos welcome visitors with a tactile, inhabitable space.

Over 1,200 bundles of sarmientos will appropriate the square, forming a collective installation that includes a seating area, a raised viewpoint over the street, and a shared table positioned between two sets of benches. From the surrounding windows, one can witness a central meal unfolding—a convivium—transforming the square into a human arena suspended above the street.

The sarmientos are interlocked within a 16-meter-long wooden structure that reaches over 4 meters in height. Slightly cantilevered from its profile, this heterogeneous natural cladding is composed of 14 vertical modules joined by six rows of horizontal bracing.

Stacked densely, the sarmientos filter light through their interstices, casting shadows on the ground and offering shade inside the wooden niche. An oculus carved into one end frames the stone façades of the square’s surrounding dwellings.

Its proportions are both generous and intimate, forming a soft backdrop against the wall. Once a site for bullfights and festive gatherings, Plaza del Revellín becomes performative again—this time through a new ritual. In the end, the sarmientos may serve one final purpose: a collective barbecue, closing the cycle of use.

Performing Architecture

This project is part of Performing Architecture, the programme led by BASE Milano and DOPO?, promoted by the Italian Ministry of Culture. Their intervention, originally developed in the southern neighborhoods of Milan, will be reinterpreted in Logroño within the framework of Concéntrico 2025. This continuity strengthens the transnational scope of the project, allowing the ideas of performative architecture to evolve through different urban contexts. By linking both cities, the initiative reinforces the potential of architecture to activate public space through collective processes and cultural dialogue.

Performing Architecture

BASE + DOPO?
Milano

Ser Miento is a project carried out within the framework of Performing Architecture, a widespread festival that weaves together architecture and the performing arts to transform urban space alongside its inhabitants.

Born from the collaboration between BASE and DOPO?, in Milan, the festival invites a new generation of architects to explore architecture as a living practice—one that challenges conventions and opens up new possibilities for social interaction. Through performances, installations, residencies and public actions, the festival experiments with hybrid design approaches, where the body and space engage in dialogue to rewrite how we experience the city. This multidisciplinary process not only intersects architecture, culture, and education but also contributes to build a virtuous network that embraces Italy, Spain and Germany, thanks to the collaboration with Concéntrico, ZK/U Berlin and DPR Barcelona.

Nomadic architectural devices, tools for aesthetic and political activation. Performing Architecture is among the winning projects of the Festival Architettura, promoted by the Italian Ministry of Culture to support and enhance contemporary Italian architecture. A project that intertwines experimentation and outreach with a social objective: rethinking the role of architecture in cities.