LANZA Atelier intervention consists of three circles that define the space closest to the human scale. The three circles have a diameter of 20, 30, and 40 meters and a height of 44 cm, favoring the flow of people through the center of the square and the steps under the arcades.
They used red brick as a representative material for architecture of social interest. The bricks were stacked without the use of cement to make them easier to dismantle once the festival was over. Thousands of pieces meet in an instant and then move away from each other, like citizens.
1973-2021 by LANZA Atelier. Photograph by Josema Cutillas.
1973-2021 by LANZA Atelier. Photograph by Josema Cutillas.
Description of project by LANZA Atelier
In 1973, a team headed by Rafael Moneo defined the project that would become the Logroño City Hall. Weeks later, the then president of the government, Luis Carrero Blanco, died, flying through the air, in an ETA attack. This event intensified the serious political crisis of the fascist dictatorship. In the midst of the turbulent environment of social unrest, Moneo proposes a project that exemplifies the "idea of a citizen building" and creates a large public square.
Our intervention in Concéntrico begins with the decision to intervene in this civic square, but it is also hard and dry. In the middle of its monumental scale, we draw three circles that define spaces closer to the human scale.
1973-2021 by LANZA Atelier. Photograph by Josema Cutillas.
The three circles with diameters of 20, 30, and 40 meters squeeze the steps under the arcades, promoting a flow of people through the center of the square, which is normally empty. All three are 44 cm high, the height of a bench on which to sit.
In addition to the scheduled cultural encounters, other unexpected and surprising activities, carried out by passersby, take place in day and night circles.
We build with exposed red brick, a representative material of architecture of social interest. But these bricks have been stacked without using cement. Thus, at the end of the festival, 95% of the material could be dismantled, donated (through an advertisement in the newspaper) to people and construction companies, and reused. There are thousands of pieces that meet in an instant and then move away from each other, like citizens.
