A DOOR IS A SIGNIFIER. DOORS identifiable and ordinary objects, are UNIVERSAL SIGNIFIERS OF THRESHOLDS.

DOORS have acquired multiple connotations during history, both psycological and mythical: ranging from the entrance to a new and better world to the representation of a space with magical features; like the door of Ali Baba’s cave.

DOORS have the capacity to signify the space that is behind, to frame a reality that is percieved as a new through the simple act of traspassing the threshold.

A DOOR is used here as a critical way of looking into the city.

A DOOR IS A DAILY LIFE OBJECT.  The very act of TRANSPOSITIONING A DOOR into the urban space involves questions of ambiguity, inside-outside, signification and politics of space.

The DOOR is a daily life object that everyone understands as its own.

Therefore, the locations of doors in the street is a way of giving a recognizable tool to the user for its use: a gateway to project individual identities into the public realm.

Our intention is to work with the unity “DOOR” as the element that shapes the whole proposal, providing the user with the possibility of being involved on the project  through the direct use of it.

A DOOR IS A QUESTION. To open a door is an ACT OF DECISION. An act of trespassing from one space to another; an act that gives an answer to the question ‘What is in the other side?’

Every door will have an electric LED SIGN on the top of the door displaying different data and questions about the city.

Every user, at the very moment of entering the festival or entering a door will have to decide which one he uses in relation to the information that is located on its top:

The crossing becomes an ACTIVE AND PLAYFUL ENGAGEMENT with the discussion topics of the festival; a direct and democratic voice in the collective construction of the city.

A DOOR IS AN EVENT. The street is a veritable waste of an extraordinary capacity to produce COLLECTIVE EVENTS AND EMOTIONS; cancelled by an increasing amount of bureoucracy and regulations. The StreetFest competition itself is the last evidence of this suffering.

In the same line of the door signifying the street, some of the doors will have a system where different events or atmospheres will take place when someone is crossing.

The PERFORMATIVITY of the door into the urban milieu is a way of expressing the understanding of the street as a space of relation and experience.

A DOOR IS A MODULE. The DOOR is the unit which by iteration configures the totality of the proposal. The door is easily added on conforming a FOLDING SCREEN that organizes the space.

The different groups of door shape the required programs through the diverse spatial configurations of the structures.

The simplicity of the system and its mobility allows the Street Fest Staff to reshape the organization of the festival in a few minutes.

A DOOR IS A TENT. The proposal resolves the program necessities with 15 COVERED SPACES where the doors define space and structure.

These spaces provide shelter and host the different programs such classrooms, performances, projections, exhibitions, etc.

The COMPACITY of the form allows either to have a fast assemblage and to have a secure and strong way of storage at nights.

A TENT IS A DOOR. The door-tents have the possibility of being deployed to embrace other sorts of programs in a more loosely and playful way.

The possibility of movement in the tents allow the StreetFest to have a BIG RANGE OF SPATIAL CONFIGURATIONS during the two day’s festival, allowing to use the street in very different ways: from the more conventional and standard organization to special and bigger events.

The use of doors as the primary material in the proposal is an attempt to AWAKE A SPACE THAT EXISTS IN A STATE OF LATENCY; right on the threshold of the ordinary city, ready for its new understanding.