Our project FRONTONES DANZANTES has won the Ephemeral Agents international open call for the 2026 edition of
@concentricofestival in Logroño!
FRONTONES DANZANTES is a temporary installation that aims to transform the Aparcamiento del Revellín – a parking lot surrounded by several local sporting facilities – into a temporary open-air playground, enabling it to emerge as an epicenter of urban physical activity in dialogue with a local culture of movement. The project is inspired by the game of Pelota Vasca, in which players gather around a square and employ existing architectural surfaces to fling a ball at: an example of how sport can enable communities to reclaim urban spaces as common grounds.
Four movable frontones are installed as diffused sporting infrastructures, each one addressing a specific sport: a wall for Pelota Vasca, and the others for basketball, football, and climbing. By disrupting the site’s usual fleeting use, the intervention proposes a new, collective way of inhabiting the space through play. The devices can be moved around the parking lot, adapting their configuration as needed. Their shapes, just like the original frontones, are inspired by surrounding and historical architectures – an attempt to weave the urban fabric back together and fill the immaterial void that it embeds.
Project team (
@sai_______i ,
@fralantieri ,
@eri.pet ,
@ippopeste ,
@massimotnn ,
@_marcog ,
@___radicale___ ,
@liviamazzocchetti ,
@sofivtapia )
Concéntrico Festival by
@jpenaibanez
Ephemeral Agents open call in collaboration with
@distigmo @gtsantilas
Funded by
@fundacioncoar
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1. Fronton with Players of Pelota Vasca, 2019
2. Javier Adarraga Gorrochategui playing at the fronton, 1940s
3. From the series of photos 'Fronton walls in Spanish villages' photographed by ©
@gunnarknechtel
4. Child climbing on a concrete wall, 2015
5.
@jordi.colomer , ‘¡Únete! Join Us!’, 2017
6.
@zachariegroy , ‘Isolated Façades’, 2016
7. John Hejduk, ‘Mobile Housing Unit’, Triennale 1986
8-9. Las ‘Señoritas Pelotaris', 1920s
10. 3 on 3 Basketball at University Hills Mall Parking Lot, 1993
11. Pelota Mano in Barcelona, 2007
#Concéntrico2026 #FrontonesDanzantes #2050plus #logroño
