anna & eugeni bach occupies stone cellar with festive and infinite installation ‘sticks & stones’
what was an austere, cellar corridor of stone vaulting becomes at once light, festive, and ephemeral.
architecture studio anna & eugeni bach unveils ‘sticks & stones,’ a dizzying subterranean installation within the vaulted cellar of san gregorio in logroño, spain. the whimsical intervention is realized as part of the ‘concéntrico‘ international festival of architecture and design. an intriguing artifact, at first it appears simply as a wooden wall that blocks the visitor’s path and occupies the entirety of the barrel-vaulted space. the plywood scaffolding suggests a temporality, light and removable. the obstruction fills the total profile of the corridor, which is in contrast stonelike, heavy and stable.
images by eugeni bach, javier antón
upon approach, anna & eugeni bach’s ‘sticks and stones’ reveals a narrow passage through, by way of a hidden sliding door. behind lies a curtain to be drawn in order to enter. the viewer is suddenly presented with a dramatic atmospheric transformation. what was once an austere, cellar corridor of stone vaulting becomes an entirely new environment — a light, festive, ephemeral, and tectonic space. while compact, the striped canvas room seems to stretch to infinity.
the team at anna & eugeni bach elaborates on its ‘sticks & stones’ installation: ‘after the experience, both spaces, stone and textile, heavy and light, vaulted and catenary, severe and festive, stereotomic and tectonic, overlap and allow for an understanding of the cellar that reflects both its reason for being and its opposite. as stated in lewis mumford’s famous book on the history of american architecture, once a space is apprehended in its essence, everything can be summed up by what it contains: ‘sticks and stones.’
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project info:
project title: sticks & stones
design: anna & eugeni bach
location: calado de san gregorio, logroño, spain
collaborators: mariana vala (A&EB)
client: concéntrico: international festival of architecture and design
curator: javier peña
construction: PROSMA
material: GARNICA
completion: 2020
photography: eugeni bach, javier antón
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