THE EVENT ACQUIRES THE SPATIAL DIMENSION OF
A MODIFIED PLACE TO PRODUCE JOY, OF A COMFORTABLE SPACE DELIMITED WITH COLOUR
TOOLS.
The most important feature of confeti
(confetti) is that it doesn´t sleep during the day, worrying the pedestrian
with cables, lights off, and “gray” structures, but becomes an active system
which dialogues with citizens, in a sparkling plane that paints colours on the
ground, using the largest lighting source, and the most economical we have: the
sun. In sunny mornings, children play with dots that colour the granitic
soil, young people enjoy a snack of colors, and old people chat around an
orange circle which acts as a "moderator." Looking up is like
wearing coloured glasses that glad and decorate the urban landscape surrounding
the square, filters which glad the balcony of Mrs.Vicenta (the woman who lives
in the second floor), changing its colour for a few days .
When the night falls, these colour plates
are transformed into a bright confetti falling from the sky and express joy,
and why not, the festive character of Christmas; it deals with producing an
event, the singularity of a fact which doesn´t happen every day ... Exiting
the subway and find a ceiling that covers us by surprise, which reflects all
the light it receives, and generates a large coloured carpet, on which people meets.
Confeti is a scenery system that works for
the city 24 hours a day as a reducing element of remaining light, noise
attenuation, and a comedian-entertainer of urban theater, colonizing the gaps
through coloured and circular pieces of recycled plastic, opaque and
translucent, in which also can be attached photoluminescent particles; so the
illumination is generated from the reception in these plates of all existing
light sources in the surrounding area, public and private, of projector and supporting
lamps, and of course, the sun.