幻拱丨西班牙丨蹊径设计+Luis Medina

“幻拱”是2025年A Cel Obert艺术节的入选作品。这个艺术节在西班牙托尔托萨举办，旨在通过临时性空间装置激活历史遗产空间，让公众重新走进并感受这些被遗忘的场所。

‘Umbrales de Ensueño’(Dream Arches) was selected for A Cel Obert 2025 in Tortosa, Spain — a festival that fosters public engagement with the city’s architectural heritage by activating underutilized historic spaces through ephemeral artistic interventions.

▼项目鸟瞰，Bird ‘s-eye view of the project © 蹊径设计

▼激活历史遗产空间，Activating the historic space © 蹊径设计

▼托尔托萨皇家学院，The Patio de Sant Jordi i Sant Domènec © 蹊径设计

装置位于托尔托萨皇家学院群的中央庭院中。这个文艺复兴时期的建筑群是加泰罗尼亚最具代表性的历史遗址之一。三层拱廊环绕着庭院，石材与光线在此交织，形成一种富有节奏的空间秩序。从下层开阔的半圆拱，到上层更为扁平的形制，连续的拱圈让人切实感受到时间的厚度与历史的沉淀。

▼装置轴测图，Axonometric drawing © 蹊径设计 + Luis Medina

The installation is set within the Patio de Sant Jordi i Sant Domènec — the central courtyard of the Reials Collegis complex, a Renaissance ensemble considered among the most remarkable in Catalonia. Surrounded by rhythmic arcades that rise in three tiers, the courtyard reveals a layered order of stone and light. The repetition of arches, shifting from broad semicircular spans below to more subdued forms above, lends the space a tangible sense of material weight and temporal depth — an atmosphere where history feels physically present in the air and stone.

▼石材与光线的交织，The interweaving of stone and light © 蹊径设计

在“梦”这一年度主题下，装置重新诠释了庭院中的“拱”这一建筑元素。拱脱离了原本的结构逻辑，被转化为一种轻盈、模糊、难以触摸的空间界面。层叠的拱在庭院上空轻轻漂浮，现实被温柔地过滤、扭曲与模糊，仿佛一场梦境在空间中悄然铺开。

Conceived under this year’s theme, “Dreams,” the installation reimagines the arch that defines the courtyard as something fleeting and immaterial. Unbound from its structural logic, it softens into a threshold of light and air. Layered and suspended, the arches gently float above the courtyard— a dreamlike field where reality is filtered, distorted, and gently blurred.

▼对“拱”的重新诠释，A reinterpretation of “arch” © 蹊径设计

“幻拱”由多层半透明的白色欧根纱帘幕构成。帘幕在庭院中呈轻微的放射状排布，一端汇聚，另一端散开。帘幕上切出了许多大小不一的拱形：有的高耸如宫门，有的矮小仅够孩童穿过，还有一些轻轻悬在半空，像漂浮的窗口。层层拱形相互交叠，空间变得深不见底：视线在交叠中游移，剪影在模糊与显现中闪烁，清晰与朦胧悄然交织。

‘Umbrales de Ensueño’ is composed of multiple translucent curtains in white reflective organza. Spanning the courtyard, the curtains form a subtle radial pattern, gathering toward one corner and releasing toward the other. Arches of varying scales are cut from the fabric — monumental ones like palace gates, others small enough for a child to pass, a few simply hovering: small windows suspended in midair. Behind one arch, another. Sightlines slip and overlap, silhouettes flicker and dissolve. Clarity and blur rest side by side.

▼清晰与朦胧，Clarity and blur © 蹊径设计

当微风吹过，纱幕轻轻摇曳，拱的边界也变得柔软起来。帘幕缓慢而轻盈地飘动——有时向观者靠近，有时又悄然退远。空间开始流动，边界如水中倒影般轻微晃动。在这样的时刻，拱仿佛液体化了，在光线中弯曲、融化，现实也随之轻轻滑入梦境。

When a breeze passes through, the fabric stirs gently and the arches seem to lose their rigidity. The curtains drift and fold with a slow, uncertain rhythm — sometimes advancing toward the viewer, sometimes retreating away. The space itself begins to move, its boundaries wavering like reflections on water. In these moments, the arches appear almost liquid, their outlines bending and melting in the light — as if reality were slipping for an instant into a dream.

▼摇曳的纱幕，The swaying curtains © 蹊径设计

装置以极其细腻的方式捕捉光线。随着阳光在庭院中缓缓移动，半透明的欧根纱在透光与反射之间不断切换，让空气本身仿佛泛着柔和的光。帘幕的层叠制造出细微的光影变化，让明与暗在空间里缓慢流动。某些时刻，纱幕的表面泛起一层银色光泽，拱、帷幕与反射交织在一起，空间的深度变得模糊而难以分辨。纱幕在石墙之间轻轻起伏，梦与现实在此交织。

The installation catches light with delicacy. As the sun moves across the courtyard, the translucent organza shifts between translucence and reflection, turning the air itself into a luminous field. Layers of fabric overlap and scatter light in subtle gradations, so that brightness and shadow seem to circulate through the space. At certain hours, the surfaces take on a silvery sheen; the arches, veils, and reflections merge into one another until depth becomes uncertain. In this encounter, the new and the old, the solid and the ephemeral, coexist — the fabric breathing within the stone, the dream folded inside the real.

▼帘幕细部，The curtain details © 蹊径设计

随着光线变化与人群穿行，帷幕在空气中轻轻摆动，形成似有若无的拱廊重影。行走其间，时而被拱形框住，时而在帷幕后消隐。有人在下层穿越回望，有人在上层俯瞰注视。正如梦本身，这个装置没有固定的路径——人们穿越其间，试图辨认、连接、追溯，却终究沉浸在一种无法确证的暧昧之中。

As light shifts and people pass through, the fabric stirs, casting faint reflections and almost-arches that tremble on stone and column. One may be framed, then hidden; seen below or glimpsed from above. Like the dream itself, the installation offers no fixed route—only the desire to recognize, to connect, to remember. And in the end, to drift within a state that resists resolution.

▼平面图，Plan © 蹊径设计 + Luis Medina

▼剖面图，Section © 蹊径设计 + Luis Medina

项目名称：幻拱

项目类型：装置

设计方：蹊径设计+Luis Medina

项目设计：2025

完成年份：2025

设计团队：徐之非，张子墨，Luis Medina

项目地址：托尔托萨，西班牙

建筑面积：125㎡

摄影版权：蹊径设计

客户：A Cel Obert

材料：欧根纱

Project name: Umbrales de Ensueño

Project type: Installation

Design: ELSE + Luis Medina

Design year:2025

Completion Year:2025

Leader designer & Team: Zhifei Xu, Zimo Zhang，Luis Medina

Project location:Tortosa, Spain

Gross built area: 125㎡

Photo credit: ELSE

Clients: A Cel Obert

Materials:Organza