Carretera Secundaria exhibition

Or how architecture can meet other disciplines. Version 2. At COAC.

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When we did the first exhibition, people from the COAC (Official Architecture Organization from Catalonia) came to ask us to make it again, this time in an small exhibition space they have for emergent architecture. If the first time the main idea was a road, this time we climbed the road to the roof and made it a path to the exhibition space, not very visible from the street.


So the first decission was where to end this path that would bring people to this space.


The exhibited pieces would be sourrounded by mesh cilinders to protect them, who were bigger or smaller, and ware placed below the piece, at it's high or even higher, depending on the object presented.


This mesh started as ciliders but once there they got deformed.


And became "gosthy" shapes illuminated by the existing light.


The existing light was another of the subjects to play with.


This space had different colored lights that we decided to use: a general violet light for the exhibition and some bright white concentred light for the pieces exhibited.


The instalation of the "sky path"


Had to solve different problems...


But finally made it's function.


General view of the exhibition.


General plan of the exhibition.

More information about the previous exhibition at http://raichdelrio.blogspot.com/2009/03/carretera-secundaria-exhibition.html

More information about us at http://www.raichdelrio.com/

Carretera Secundaria exhibition

Or how architecture can meet other disciplines

More information at http://www.raichdelrio.com/


This was an exhibition about how architecture students deal with other disciplines while studying achitecture. It was done in the ETSAB (the architecture school in barcelona) with ETSAB students.





It was an open registration and people from very different disciplines came to us (including lighting and scenography but also cooking or sewing)





So the question was: how to give to all these different contents a common frame? how to organize them all?
It fastly came the idea of the "secondary road", a road which is not the main road (that would be working in an architecture office as an intern) and that, of course, can be much more slow but can also make you look at the landscape (your enviroment) in a different way.





The first big thing was there: making a road crossing all the hall, and placing the works outside from it, hanging from the ceilling. Al the posters had in one side the work printed and in the other side pictores of "secondary roads".







At the end, it happened that people walked through the road...





The path was done in standard moquete, and we self-printed the lines with a stencil.


Early sketch - concept.




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