In a city like Alicante, mostly dedicated to tourism and entertainment, leisure facilities and structures succeeded without being valued as local heritage. The installation is paired by a mobile app that rebuilds fragments of movies, baths, and ballrooms built between 1917 and 2017, so to come back to life a second time. The project doesn’t want to be a nostalgic quest, but rather a contemporary interactive attraction.
Summer Boom (Boom del verano), Alicante, Spain
Program: installation
Architects: Vilaplana&Vilaplana Estudio, PlugandYeah
Team: Amelia Vilaplana, Paula Vilaplana, Juan López
Contractors: Taller Paco Granja Paco Granja, Ricardo Granja, Javier Granja
Completion: 2017