2017 Bells by Sergio Sebastián
22/12/2017.
[Sant Cugat del Vallés - Barcelona] Spain
metalocus, PABLO CUESTA
metalocus, PABLO CUESTA
Description of project by Sergio Sebastían
Bells of Sant Cugat´s Monastery will be at every place in the city, concentrating all the Xmas richness as funny interventions made of shine, light, and sound.
OBJETICVE:
Make visitor and citizen knows Sant Cugat´s Xmas as a small difuse museum, made of estructures that surprise walkers concentrating emotive and plastic intense interventions.
STRATEGY:
All the micro-interventions are able to move and modify their contents each year, according to a management plan. So that Bells has a high value of citizen implication and urban connetcion.
THE BELL:
Is based on a conic self-carrier bell, that does not need fachade subjections. This structure is identified with a color, and holds out a bell made of stainless polished steel. As a mirror, the outside face of the bell reflects the sky and the environment, minimizing its presence. But when the visitor comes inside, the polished Steel amplifies every lighting effect surounding, multiplying and melting the reflects of the installation and the citizen.
FUNCTIONALITY:
The bell produces different plastic effects, by day with sunlight, and whe night comes with the artifcial lights of each installation. This way the intervention is visitable 24 hours a day. Some bells are able to introduce tolos to interactuate with citizen.
MATERIALS:
Structure: Diagonal and vertical columns, compression and traction rings, are made of 3mm. painted steel tubes of 80mm diameter.
Subestructure: Rectangular 60.30.3 mm tubes of polished stainless steel.
Bell surface: 2mm polished stainless steel.
Illumination: Led lamps.