2017 Bells by Sergio Sebastián

Taking as inspiration the bells of the Monastery of Sant Cugat del Vallés, the architecture studio of Sergio Sebastián Franco has designed this temporary lighting proposal for the Christmas holidays, interesting and different.

Sergio Sebastían Franco has designed three models of bells, almost 6 meters high, in which each one produces different visual effects, colors and reflections, taking as motives a xylophone, a kaleidoscope and the rosette of the church. Each model rests on legs that give continuity to a cone trunk, generating a space in which visitors can see the variations of light plays by day and night. The three models can act individually and jointly.

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.

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Bell model 1. 2017 Bells by Sergio Sebastián. Photograph © Irene Ruiz

Interior bell model 1.2017 Bells by Sergio Sebastián. Photograph © Irene Ruiz

2017 Bells by Sergio Sebastián. Photograph © Irene Ruiz

Detail bell model 1. 2017 Bells by Sergio Sebastián. Photograph © Irene Ruiz

General view bell model 1. 2017 Bells by Sergio Sebastián. Photograph © Irene Ruiz

Bell model 2. 2017 Bells by Sergio Sebastián. Photograph © Irene Ruiz

Night view bell model 2. 2017 Bells by Sergio Sebastián. Photograph © Irene Ruiz

Bell model 3. 2017 Bells by Sergio Sebastián. Photograph © Irene Ruiz

Detail bell model 3. 2017 Bells by Sergio Sebastián. Photograph © Irene Ruiz

Night view bell model 3. 2017 Bells by Sergio Sebastián. Photograph © Irene Ruiz

Night view bell model 1. 2017 Bells by Sergio Sebastián. Photograph © Irene Ruiz

Description plan bell model 2. 2017 Bells by Sergio Sebastián. Photograph © Irene Ruiz

Description plan bell model 1. 2017 Bells by Sergio Sebastián. Photograph © Irene Ruiz

Description plan bell model 3. 2017 Bells by Sergio Sebastián. Photograph © Irene Ruiz

Construction detail. 2017 Bells by Sergio Sebastián. Photograph © Irene Ruiz

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Architects

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Sergio Sebastián Franco

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Team

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Giorgio Bernardi, Pablo Sebastián, Iván Martín, Alejandro Alda. Javier Caamaño (structure).

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Developer

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Ayuntamiento de Sant Cugat del Vallés.

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Dates

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Project-works 2017.

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Measures

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Approximate height 5.5 m variable diameters.

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Contractor

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Manufacturer.- Ilméx SA (Ximenez Illumination Group) / Assembly.- Citelum SA.

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Materials

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Stainless steel, aluminum, plexiglass. LIGHTING: Led luminous cord, led light wire, led projectors.

Sergio Sebastián Franco

Sergio Sebastián´s Architecture Office was founded by Sergio Sebastián Franco in 2006 and is based in Saragossa.

Sergio Sebastián Franco. Calatayud (1976). Architect ETSA Madrid. 2002. PhD Architect ETSA Madrid. 2016. Architectural Design at the University of Zaragoza since 2009. Among his main works are the City of Justice in Zaragoza, or the Palace of Justice in Huesca, or the Master Plan for the rehabilitation of the Palace of the Audience of Zaragoza. Among the fields of art and architecture, they have been developing pieces of artistic lighting since 2004.

Currently, he is developing various studies for the recovery of the Camino De Santiago in Aragon and the enhancement of various dispersed and abandoned heritage in various nuclei to its He passed. He is also a contributing critic at Zenda Libros.

Selected in the Spanish Pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2020. Gold Medal for the DOMUS Restauro e Conservazione Award (2014). Architecture Award with EÑE (2018 and 2016). Ricardo Magdalena Awards (2020, 2018, and 2013). Construlita Mexico Award (2019). Paysage Triennale di Milano Award (2019). Innomatnet Awards Award. New materials in Building Industrie (2014). Excellence Award in Historic Architectural Renovations in Build Magazine’s Architecture Awards (2015). Rethinking The Future International Awards Award (2018 and 2015). Blue Stone Awards Archi-World Award (2013). Special mention Europa Nostra Awards (2014). Selected in various editions of the European Landscape Biennial, the Spanish Architecture Biennial, the Urban CCCB Awards, or the CSCAE Architecture in Positive Awards. Finalist in the Arquia / Próxima awards, Piranesi Accademia Adrianea di Roma, ASCER, García Mercadal COAA, Prémio Jornal-Larus architecturas urban equipment Iberian, and LUMEC CLU Foundation Philips, SAIE Selection Contest´12 Archi-Europe.

Published on: December 22, 2017

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