Can Sau. Emergency Scenography
Spain CCC ES
Un Parell d'Arquitectes
2019
Type
Public Space
Tags
public spaces, renovations, colaboration with artists , Spain ccc
Visitability
Allowed
Description
Demolition continues in the old district of Olot. For many reasons, but always with the same consequences: abandoned plots, loss of urbanity, disfigurement of the street, destruction of the ordinary streetscape. Half of Can Sau, tangential to the Tura shrine, was affected by road alignment needs. The rest of the plot, presided over by a common wall and four staggered buttresses, was empty. With an application made for pavement and provisional urban furniture and a contract in progress for waterproof sheet metal cladding, it was time to rethink the intervention. It was urgent to allocate resources to the vertical plane to ensure that the common wall was watertight and stable. And, above all, to equip the space with an urban feeling: façades are responsible for shaping the street in this dense city.Emergency scenery was built with hollow brick, following the lines suggested by the buttresses, revealing traces of former inhabitants' homes visible on the common wall peeking through in the background. A construction with three vaults and four niches has created a public space by way of a porous façade, with several isolated steps. It is an unfinished and adaptable structure. Visual artist Quim Domene did subsequent work with the niches, employing allegorical features to highlight the history of the neighbourhood. The church of Tura, squeezed between narrow lanes, has now gained a public space to the side, presided over by the bricked-up door of the former Romanesque temple. ( Description provided by Un Parell d´Arquitectes )