As an alternative to the resource-excessive and short-term architecture of temporary festivals, the Off-Season Pavilion by KOSMOS proposes to search for the locally available resources of Logroño and give them a new temporary life outside of their productive cycle. The installation reveals the hidden materials of the local agricultural industry: the so-called ‘jaulones de vino,’ huge metal cages uses to store wine bottles used in big bodegas. These storage cubes boast a very clear seasonal temporality: completely full of bottles in one part of the year and completely empty and unused in the other one, which, in this case, luckily coincides with the time of the Concentrico Festival.
With its stepped roof, the pavilion typologically resembles an agricultural shed and a traditional basilica, referring to both productive/labor and social/spiritual practices. Placed on a platform next to the Church of Santiago el Real, it offers shade and a place for gathering. Golden meshes of the cages create an intricate play of light and shadows and transform the space into a maze of dematerialized rooms.
The project is done with the support of Ebro SAME production, Swiss Art Council Pro Helvetia, Pernod Ricard Winemakers.
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KOSMOS Architects for Concentrico Festival 2024
Logroño, La Rioja, Spain.
Photos by Laurian Ghinitoiu , Josema Cutillas and Sara Cuerdo.
KOSMOS team:
Leonid Slonimskiy
Artem Kitaev
Blanca Garcia Gardelegui
Vsevolod Babichuk
Boris Nemzew
Dmitriy Prikhodko
