Triangular shape of Torico Square by b720

The triangular shape of the O-Teruel Square is not random, its path becomes the natural slope by running rain water. Over time it generated a land transformed morphology, domesticating outstanding transcribing other vector systems in your organization. Socially, Torico Square is an extension of the urban fabric, a playful site and a citizen. Their dual connector and meeting environment required a design response that projects into the future, respecting the spatial qualities and heritage.

The intervention focuses on the complete renovation of the appearance of the square, their porches and facades, following a careful lighting the set. And also means the recovery for the public to the wells of great artistic heritage and are located beneath the plaza, connecting, Somero reuse the well as an exhibition and display the Albellón.

The pavement developed allows a sensitive relationship with the variety of interpretations of the stories, events and emotions that come together in the square. Evokes, and the traces of ancient water flow. The systematic compositional strategy of repetition and variation is embodied physically in the cobbled pavement surface using a lighting system based on LED technology. The variation comes from the runoff plot of the square which translates into power lines, causing branches and inflections to encounter different obstacles on the surface with the source of Torico (where is the turning point of illumination); underground, the wells (groundwater storage), on which the density of vectors is halved, so the ground presence is referenced in the public space.

The lamp, designed exclusively for this project is ready for the road traffic i the release of the popular bulls Torico celebration each summer. Its dimensions are 46 or 77 cm x 3.5 cm wide, embedded in the pavement. The LED technology allows the possibility of changing color, create textures and compositions varied in exceptional circumstances, although its routine use is the white light. A dedicated software allows Internet control, adjusting to normal or night time (higher, lower intensity) or off.

With the aim of providing a good feeling to the place without light will not show the pattern of luminescent inlaid facades and the horizontal top of the porch have been illuminated. The lighting of the square is reduced to the vertical plane of the facade that rotates to become the horizontal plane above the false ceiling of the porches.

In the latter, a new ceiling has recessed update and facilities that hung from the lintel of the outer face of the porches. The light, slightly grazing and bathing facades, light linearly vertically from the cornices. From the side of the ceiling, the perimeter of the square porch light horizontally and diffusely.

The landmarks are treated specially, downward, to emphasize its architectural features, while the iconic monument to Torico, which gives the square its name, is illuminated from the facade by a narrow beam lights.

Using the latest technologies in the general lighting of facades and porticos of the square reduces us to an intervention maintenance every 20 years, as well as energy consumption for general lighting system.

Below ground level interventions have enabled a connection between the two wells that displays the Albellón Somero and reuse water tank as an exhibition. An invitation, in the city of Teruel, enjoy a tour of the past dynamic between elements of an archaeological and contemporary art.