Once again this year, students from UIC Barcelona School of Architecture are taking part in the Llum BCN Festival, a leading European event that turns the streets of Poblenou into a laboratory of light experimentation. This year’s edition, which takes place between 7 and 9 February, features more than 40 installations, including The Infinite Loop, a proposal that transforms a party wall into a ‘celestial canvas’.

The installation, located in Castella Street, plays with the concepts of time and infinity, creating a fictitious infinity where time passes at a different pace, inviting the spectator to immerse themselves in contemplation where the endings merge with the beginnings in an endless loop. In this scenario, the Sun and the Moon follow their own paths: while warm light descends, evoking the calm of dusk, Earth's nighttime satellite moves slowly and changes shape in a perpetual cycle.

The project, supervised by lecturer Iñaki Baquero, was developed by a team of ten students: Elena Elisa Errico, Shahbonu Lalbekova, Lina Mael Proust, Jakob Fischer, Lea Mailliet, Temuri Apriamashuili, Janna Nehad, Anna Casanova, Lorena Rivera, Asra Mohammadi and Ahmadi Jazani Saba. The installation respects the neighbours' central windows and focuses on the sides of the façade, where a dialogue is created between urban life and the artificial sky.
 

Last year, five students from the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture received the Yamaha Young Creative Talent Award for the Electric Routes installation in the Yamaha Lighting Point area in Plaça de Santiago Rey. The installation offered a different perspective on connectivity and freedom of mobility.

This year’s proposal will remain on display until 9 February.