Los Sábados

TŁO
Pasaje Chimenea
2026

Los Sábados borrows its name from the Polish soboty —the low wooden galleries wrapping the bases of rural timber churches in Poland, functioning as shelters for worshippers arriving a day early for Sunday mass. The word means, simply, the Saturdays.

The installation transposes this vernacular archetype to a narrow street in Logroño, beside the chimney of a former tobacco factory. This outdoor space already has an almost interior-like quality that we aim to amplify. A canopy of reclaimed wooden slats —cut and threaded onto steel cables like the shingles of a Polish timber church— is suspended between the walls of two public buildings, filtering sunlight rather than shedding rain. Below, stone kerbs from the city’s own road materials depot are stacked into benches.

The space they define is open to whoever needs it: to those with nowhere else to rest, and to those recovering from the night before. The soboty never asked why you came.

The wooden panels are sourced from the previous year’s festival installation —boards that built something once, now woven into something new. The structural system requires no fixings into the historic walls: five steel trench struts, standard elements used in excavation work, are extended by compression between the facades, holding the canopy without a single anchor point. After the festival, the stone returns to the city depot. The wood moves on. The steel is unbolted and folded away.

Conceived in the spirit of design for disassembly, the project is a fragment of Polish vernacular memory, assembled in La Rioja and designed to leave no trace beyond the Saturday it sheltered.