EXTRA-ORDINARY GATE

The project EXTRA-ORDINARY GATE, realized for the 8th edition of the Concéntrico festival in Logroño (Spain), is located in one of the most historically significant sites of the Spanish city and more precisely at the point where the Calle Marqués de San Nicolás, the way of the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, meets the defensive walls that used to surround and protect the city. Here a significant breach interrupts the continuity of the walls to ensure the passage of cars and pedestrians.
The project EXTRA-ORDINARY GATE suggests, through a temporary installation, a possible mending of the city walls of Logroño with the addition of a threshold-element that emphasizes the action of physical passage through the walls of a city.
The portal, made of green-painted wood, evokes the image of the temporary gateways built in the city of Logroño during the Fiesta de San Bernabè, as well as the shape of the nearby Revellín Gate, thus seeking a historical, morphological, and material connection with the city and the collective memory of its inhabitants.