Silver Emporia for innovation – Ephemeral architecture competition

Combination of geometry and sculpture with technics used in Fallas festival from Valencia, Spain. A reinterpretation of grotesque decorations from Valencia Silk Market, UNESCO Heritage building from XV century.

A golden cube in the desert to attract people to its inside, where they become part of an art installation that mixes the contemporary language of the latticed architecture of the pavilion with the cardboard pieces and molds of a traditional Fallas guild.

The cube lays over a wooden mosaic of 25.321 pieces assambled by social collectives. The debate between tratition and contemporary is held over the floor that has been built by the collectivity. Nor the tradition nor the experimentation have a future without comunal effort.

The project will mix:

– An structure made only of cardboard to generate the bigger space with the minimum resources and that can be burned in a clean way. Structure covered with medieval decoration.

– Mosaic design in floor with the idea to make participate at its construction to the community. This mosaic will be inspired in Nolla’s ceramic, a traditional Valencian ceramic which production was lost at the end of 19th century.– Figures made in cardboard in the traditional way of building Fallas. The figures will be inspired in the grotesque and erotic figures of the Silk Market in Valencia.

– Light tubes build one by one on the cardboard tubes by hand by RADIANTE the lighting studio who designed the light show adhoc to recreate an intimate and spiritual athmosphere during the night