Location: Octavia Sq. Sant Cugat del Vallés

Years: 2017-18 

With: Giorgio Bernardi, Iván Paul Martín, Alejandro Alda, Pablo Sebastián

Promoter: Sant Cugat City Council

Builder: Ilméx - Ximénez Iluminación 

Installer: Citelum 

Photos: Irene Ruiz Bazán

Bells of Sant Cugat´s Monastery will sound at every place in the city, concentrating all the  Xmas richness as funny interventions made of shine, light, and sound. 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 connection. 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

#1. Rosette

White bell shows an installation as a tribute to Monastery´s romanic rosette. Its Stone structure, plumb substructure, and color pieces of glass, are reinterpreted in a overlapping layer system made of aluminium

Is based on a conic self-carrier bell, that does not need facade 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 surrounding, multiplying and melting the reflects of the installation and the citizen

The bell produces different plastic effects, by day with sunlight, and when night comes with the artificial lights of each installation.  This way the intervention is visitable 24 hours a day. Some bells are able to introduce tools to interactuate with citizen

Bell #2. Kaleidoscope

Yellow bell gets thinner to show a marvelous kaleidoscope, that reflects sky, city lights and the citizen. As a giant piece of ice glass, the movement experience of the visitor will act as to be inside a big kaleidoscope, that expands its reflects all around the ground below.

Bell #3 Xylophone

The blue bell acts as a giant interactive musical instrument, that captures the movements of the people, and transforms them into light and sound impulses, both amplified by the envolving mirror steel bell.