This project was installed on the north bank of the Ebro river, between an underused concrete dock and the season-shifting water levels of the river. This transitional condition represented the opportunity to create a habitable space that would promote the interaction between the man-made city and the natural environment.

Our installation responded to both the Festival’s intentions and to site conditions by reactivating a neglected riverfront edge—once a bathing area, now reduced to a passageway—with a hand-made shaded wooden space that encouraged both environmental responsiveness and social rituals such as pausing, learning, exchanging and contemplating river life.