Temporary architecture · Torrevieja

Floristería Carmina

An installation in the window of the Carmina florist’s that stands for the system of the Torrevieja salt flats: water, flora and fauna, in balance.

Type: Temporary architecture and installation
Location: C/ Ramón Gallud, Torrevieja
Year: 2019
Authors: José María Ruiz, José Capovila and Rafael Berná, with the University of Alicante

Water, flora and fauna

The installation stands for different elements of the system of the salt flats: the water (blue planes), the flora (green planes) and the fauna (pink planes). Through three hyperbolic paraboloid planes parallel to one another, with these colours we set out to reflect the balance of the salt flats’ ecosystem.

The installation of coloured threads seen from inside the florist’s

The planes of blue, green and pink thread crossing in the shop window

Detail of the illuminated salt cubes among the threads

The salt cubes, at the intersection

To complete the balance, at the intersection between those planes sit the salt cubes, which identify the element itself, the presence of the salt industry and the hand of man in the cubes’ extra dimension with respect to the planes.

The florist’s shop window seen from the street, at night

Salt as the link

The balance of these salt cubes between the planes of the different elements shows the capacity of salt as a link, influencing them all and providing the final balance of the salt flats system.

Plan and section of the installation with the dimensions of the three planes

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