Detail of the project ed. 2016

the-light­­house / Resetland

Design­er	Eduar­do Del­ga­do Orusco
Loca­tion	Madrid
Design Team	Eduar­do Del­ga­do Orus­co, Javier Viv­er, Javier Rincón Sánchez, Miguel Quirós Este­ban, Miri­am Gar­cía Gar­cía, Rubén Ses­mero Blanco
Year	2012
Pho­to credits	Exte­ri­or 01–05: Javier Viver Inte­ri­or 01–05: Javier Viver

Pho­to external

Project descrip­tion

In 2012, a vig­il of ado­ra­tion of the Eucharist for 40 hours was planned by the Arch­bish­opric of Madrid. The vig­il pro­gram con­sid­ered the instal­la­tion of a chapel for the Eucharis­tic Exhi­bi­tion, with a space equal­ly reserved for the Sacra­ment of Reconciliation.
Coin­cid­ing with these dates Madrid City Coun­cil had rent­ed a space for the instal­la­tion of a cin­e­ma in a geo­des­ic dome with an inte­ri­or pro­jec­tion screen that allowed an immer­sive expe­ri­ence in the film. The City offered the Arch­bish­opric the use of the dome, some­thing that endowed the occa­sion with excep­tion­al pos­si­bil­i­ties as it offered us the cha¬llenge of trans­form­ing a mag­nif­i­cent film pro­jec­tion space of 11 meters radius in an audio­vi­su­al tem­ple ded­i­cat­ed to the con­tem­pla­tion of the Eucharis­tic and the Sacra­ment of Reconciliation.
We soon real­ized that the only pos­si­ble film for the audio­vi­su­al pro­jec­tion of the dome had to con­sist of the rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the solar cycle, with its dawn and twilight.
The focus of atten­tion was on the Eucharis­tic light­house. We under­stood that a cer­tain geometriza­tion of the light­house would con­tribute simul­ta­ne­ous­ly to pro­vide it with a growth law and a cer­tain plas­tic vibra­tion. The vibra­tion pro­vid­ed by that geometriza­tion to the col­umn, acti­vat­ed in turn by can­dle­light at the foot of it, sought to evoke the fire of the col­umn described in the book of Exo­dus (13:21–22).
The dynam­ics of this project also allowed us to get the design of the prie-dieu and also the gar­ments worn by Madrid Car­di­nal in the act of plac­ing of the Eucharis­tic in the Mon­strance, open­ing of the chapel.
Dur­ing 40 unin­ter­rupt­ed hours the great dome was trans­formed into a sacred space for the exhi­bi­tion and ado­ra­tion of Jesus in the Eucharist. The Mon­strance with the Eucharist exhib­it­ed on a great light­­house-exhibitor pro­claim­ing Jesus, Light of the world. The walls of the dome became a great celes­tial dome that is like an altar­piece to serve the Lord’s presence.

Illus­tra­tive project report
Down­load report

Pho­to internal

Tech­ni­cal drawings

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