{"id":15485,"date":"2025-10-22T07:29:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/translucent-organza-curtains-float-within-renaissance-arched-courtyard-in-spain\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T07:29:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:29:44","slug":"translucent-organza-curtains-float-within-renaissance-arched-courtyard-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/translucent-organza-curtains-float-within-renaissance-arched-courtyard-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"translucent organza curtains float within renaissance arched courtyard in spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wow wow-yellow\">Umbrales de Ensue\u00f1o transforms Renaissance arched courtyard<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Located within the historic Reials Collegis complex in Tortosa, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/architecture-in-spain\/\">Spain<\/a><\/strong>, Umbrales de Ensue\u00f1o ephemeral fabric <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/interactive-installation\/\">installation<\/a><\/strong> by ELSE Design in collaboration with Luis Medina, was part of the 2025 edition of A Cel Obert. The festival activates the city\u2019s heritage architecture through <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/temporary-pavilions\/\">temporary<\/a><\/strong> interventions. Installed in the Patio de Sant Jordi i Sant Dom\u00e8nec, the project engages directly with the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/private-courtyards\/\">courtyard\u2019s<\/a><\/strong> Renaissance geometry, defined by a three-tier sequence of arcades. These arches, varying in scale and proportion, create a spatial rhythm that articulates both structure and light. The installation examines how this architectural order can be reinterpreted through non-structural, lightweight materials.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The intervention consists of multiple translucent <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/textile-and-fabric-art\/\">organza<\/a><\/strong> curtains suspended across the courtyard in a radial configuration. Each fabric sheet features arch-shaped cutouts at different scales, some large enough to walk through, others framing smaller visual openings. The arches are not built but subtracted, allowing voids to define spatial perception. Through this operation, Umbrales de Ensue\u00f1o transforms the Renaissance motif of the arch into a porous, temporary threshold.<\/p>\n<p>umbrales de ensue\u00f1o fabric installation by ELSE Design and Luis Medina | all images courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elsedesign.net\/\">ELSE Design<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wow wow-yellow\">layers of Suspended organza curtains shape the airy installation<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Movement and environmental conditions are integral to the installation\u2019s behavior. Air currents and changes in sunlight continuously alter the fabric\u2019s form and visual quality. As wind passes through, the material shifts and folds, softening the boundaries between physical and perceptual space. The translucent organza reacts to daylight, moving from near transparency to reflective opacity, creating gradients of light and shadow that change throughout the day. The project establishes a dialogue between permanence and temporality, between the heavy stone of the courtyard and the weightless textile suspended within it. The overlapping curtains generate layered sightlines, where reflections, silhouettes, and shadows form a secondary architecture inside the original structure. Visitors moving through the space encounter shifting visual alignments as the installation mediates between architecture, light, and air.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By abstracting the structural logic of the arch into a field of suspended voids, Umbrales de Ensue\u00f1o by ELSE Design <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elsedesign.net\/\">Studio<\/a><\/strong> in collaboration with Luis Medina, investigates the relationship between materiality and perception. The work positions itself between architecture and installation, using minimal means to explore how spatial memory and environmental factors can redefine historical context through temporary design.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>spanning the courtyard, the curtains form a radial pattern, gathering in one corner and releasing toward the other<\/p>\n<p>the installation is set within the central courtyard of the Reials Collegis complex, a Renaissance ensemble<\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- CLOSE ARTICLE CONTENT --><\/p>\n<div class=\"fullwidth-image\">\n<div class=\"layout-box\">\n<div class=\"page-content\">\n<p>layered and suspended, the arches gently float above the courtyard, creating a dreamlike field<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\t<!-- OPEN ARTICLE CONTENT -->\t<\/p>\n<p>layers of curtains generate a field of porous thresholds within the courtyard<\/p>\n<p>arch-shaped cutouts of varying scales punctuate translucent white fabric<\/p>\n<p>each layer contributes to a secondary architecture of reflections and silhouettes<\/p>\n<p>the organza shifts from transparency to reflection under changing sunlight<\/p>\n<p>fabric and stone coexist in a dialogue between permanence and temporality, old and new, real and dreamlike<\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- CLOSE ARTICLE CONTENT --><\/p>\n<div class=\"fullwidth-image\">\n<div class=\"layout-box\">\n<div class=\"page-content\">\n<p>suspended organza curtains engage the courtyard\u2019s sequence of Renaissance arches<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\t<!-- OPEN ARTICLE CONTENT -->\t<\/p>\n<p>gradients of light and shadow transform as the day progresses<\/p>\n<p>subtle air currents animate the fabric, blurring distinctions between solid and void<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>project info:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>name:<\/strong>\u00a0Umbrales de Ensue\u00f1o<\/p>\n<p><strong>architect:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elsedesign.net\/\">ELSE Design<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/design_by_else\/\">@design_by_else<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>lead designers:<\/strong>\u00a0Zhifei Xu, Zimo Zhang, Luis Medina<br \/>\n<strong>location:<\/strong> Reials Collegis complex, Tortosa, Spain<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>designboom has received this project from our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/readers-submit\">DIY submissions<\/a>\u00a0feature, where we welcome our readers to submit their own work for publication. see more project submissions from our readers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/readers\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>edited by: christina vergopoulou | designboom<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/art\/translucent-organza-curtains-renaissance-arched-courtyard-spain-umbrales-de-ensueno-fabric-ephemeral-installation-else-design-luis-medina-10-22-2025\/\">translucent organza curtains float within renaissance arched courtyard in spain<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/\">designboom | architecture &amp; design magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Umbrales de Ensue\u00f1o transforms Renaissance arched courtyard \u00a0 Located within the historic Reials Collegis complex in Tortosa, Spain, Umbrales de Ensue\u00f1o ephemeral fabric installation by ELSE Design in collaboration with Luis Medina, was part of &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[142],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.7 - 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