Concéntrico 06

3 – 6 September 2020

Festival program

Concentrico is Logroño’s International Festival of Architecture and Design that proposes to reflect on the urban environment and the city. Concéntrico 06 was held from 3 to 6 September 2020.

The Festival invites visitors to tour the city through installations, exhibitions, meetings, activities and performances that create a connection between the squares, streets, courtyards and hidden spaces that usually go unnoticed in their daily lives.

Since 2015, the festival has brought together 59 urban installations in its five editions, in addition to the 14 interventions that will take place this year:

Gregor Schneider, Germany / Iza Rutkowska, Poland / Storey Studio, United Kingdom / Jordi Gali con Jérémy Paon y Julien Quartier, France / KOGAA, Czech Republic / Mecanismo, España / Taneli Mansikkamäki, Finland / Attila Kim + Bogdan Ciocodeica, Romania / Anna & Eugeni Bach, Spain

Winners of the calls / Ignacio Hornillos + Javier Fernández, Spain / Silvia Bachetti + Agnese Casadio, Germany – Italy / Alejandro Ramírez, Mexico

Guest schools / Escuela Superior de Diseño de La Rioja, Spain / Escuela de Arquitectura de Toledo, Spain

The exhibitions have extended the focus to new international contexts, in 2020 we explore architecture and its natural cycles with The Pavilion of Reverberations by Centrala and Fundacja Bec Zmiana in an exhibition that began in the Polish pavilion of La Biennale di Venezia; the design of the Finnish Tuomas Kuure in Escuela Superior de Diseño de La Rioja.

The programme is completed in each edition with other activities, such as meetings and conversations with the support of Spanish Cultural Action and Creative Europe.

Kreuzweg

The structure builds a very dark passage in the shape of a black cross. It cancels the distinction between one’s own outer/physical and inner/psychological space; between a publicly shared and a private personal space.

Gregor Schneider
Plaza del Mercado
Installation

Across Boundaries

A modular structure built to minimize the number of cuts, screws and additives. Uses recyclable and/or reusable materials to create a flexible space that can be easily rebuilt or expanded.

Taneli Mansikkamäki (AGO)
COAR Patio
Installation

Equestrian statue

In collective consciousness it was always the object representing a man on a horse. How can we change the meaning of the equestrian statue in 2020 when we leave it to be designed by a woman?

Iza Rutkowska
Paseo del Espolón
Installation

Circo aéreo

An itinerant installation that explores the underutilized potential of empty urban spaces and their alternative functions. The object reactivates these places by providing a stage and a place to rest.

KOGAA
Parking – Mayor Street
Installation

Courtyard of Reflections

An installation that reflects on the sensory power of nature in the built environment. An aromatic garden is formed with seasonal plants to establish new sensory and visual relationships.

Storey Studio
Plaza San Bartolomé
Installation

Fiesta

A large platform floats on the pavement of the square like a big picnic blanket. The installation is a symbolic gesture that brings together all the members of Logroño’s multicultural community in a party.

Attila KIM & Bogdan CIOCODEICA
Plaza del Revellín
Installation

Banquín

A big rocking bench. A space in the city, dynamic and adaptable that can generate, thanks to its dimension and movement, diverse situations among different users, giving rise to new social relations.

Mecanismo
Gran vía Street
Installation

Arcos

A poetic, abstract and geometric intervention, the installation was born with the desire to deploy a constructive and humane gesture that echoes the rhythm of the cypress trees, an impossible perspective towards the Church.

Jordi Galí – Arrangement Provisoire
Santiago Church Square
Installation

Sticks & Stones

In the middle of the Calado de San Gregorio, a strange device has appeared. It is, at first sight, a wooden wall that blocks the passage and occupies the entire barrel-vaulted section of the space.

Anna & Eugeni Bach
Calado de San Gregorio
Installation

Prismarium

The pavilion is a crystallography of prisms that organize the space of the square and establish an iconic relationship with the changing images of its perimeter, activated at each moment of the festival.

Ignacio Hornillos – Javier F. Contreras
Plaza Escuelas Trevijano
Pavilion

Arch-play

The installation is an invitation to change our usual perspective on architecture and the city. It creates a new playful relationship between the car parks and the facades of Muro de la Mata Street.

Silvia Bachetti – Agnese Casadio
Parking in El Espolón
Installation

LAN – 4

The design poses an abstraction of a bottle of wine. Its elongated figure creates a landmark on the limit of one of the plots of land of Viña Lanciano, bringing its scale closer to the context of the Ebro and the Mantible bridge.

oe architect – Alejandro Ramírez
Viña Lanciano – Bodegas LAN
Installation

The Pavilion of Reverberations

What do Warsaw wetlands, Ebro Chiquito and aquatic plants have to do with architecture? The exhibition links these echoes in a story about architecture and its planetary imagination.

CENTRALA
Logroño City Council
Exhibition

Life is a lethal experiment

Tuomas Kuure’s artistic furniture collection, a sum of expressiveness and cabinetmaking details. The care in the detail is more than something tangible, it is the love to touch the material.

Tuomas Kuure
Escuela Superior de Diseño de La Rioja
Exhibition

Hex · pansiva

A floating object that culminates the fifth facade of the Library, making the apparently unreal a reality. The aim of this exercise is to put this concept into value while giving character to the space.

Toledo School of Architecture
Biblioteca de La Rioja
Installation

All Concéntrico

Amanita Muscaria
Patricia Ramos, Miriam Alonso and Paula Mena
Information Pavilion
Plaza Escuelas Trevijano
Concéntrico 04
Talks in the Pavilion
Event
Plaza Escuelas Trevijano
Concéntrico 02
Migrant Garden. Untouchable Landscapes
Exhibition
Capilla de La Bene
Concéntrico 04
Concéntrico in Madrid
Intervention
Nuevos Ministerios
Concéntrico 06
Memory of a “Château”
Hevia + F. Bayo
Intervention
Marqués de Murrieta
Concéntrico 01
Architecture for Cats
School of Design of La Rioja
Intervention
Patio del Museo de La Rioja
Concéntrico 02
Concéntrico in Madrid
Intervention
Nuevos Ministerios
Concéntrico 08
Popular Theatre
Yemail Arquitectura
Intervention
Plaza de San Bartolomé
Concéntrico 08
HAMR – Huť architektury Martin Rajniš
Exhibition
Ayuntamiento de Logroño
Concéntrico 04
Concéntrico Pavilion
Cássio Sauer, Elisa T. Martins [sauermartins] + Mauricio...
Intervention
Plaza Escuelas Trevijano
Concéntrico 07
Intana
Event
Plaza de San Bartolomé
Concéntrico 05
La Plaza
Lucas Seré Paltzer and Sebastián Andrés Podestá
Intervention
Plaza de San Bartolomé
Concéntrico 04
Architecture in Film
Event
Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de La Rioja
Concéntrico 05
Signals 1.0
Tools for Action
Intervention
Nocturnal performances through the city
Concéntrico 05
Glimpse
Fernando Cruzado, Julia Díaz, Francisco Javier Fernández,...
Intervention
Viña Lanciano
Concéntrico 04
Arkki Workshop
Event
Museo Würth La Rioja
Concéntrico 07
An Elevated Table in the Landscape
Jennyfher Alvarado, Álvaro Gonzalez
Intervention
Viña Lanciano
Concéntrico 09
Tensegrity Späti
Barkow Leibinger
Intervention
Entorno Iglesia de Santiago
Concéntrico 09
De-alienating the home
Gonzalo Herrero & Pati Santos - Central Saint Martins
Intervention
Chimenea de la Tabacalera
Concéntrico 08
The Pavilion of Reverberations
CENTRALA
Exhibition
Ayuntamiento de Logroño
Concéntrico 06