The Casa de la Moneda hosts an innovative proposal by IE University students done in wood

This second edition of the Yin Yang Project is promoted by Segovia’s Council, the American Hardwood Export council (AHEC) and the private university 

The Casa de la Moneda will be hosting until Monday February, 24^th a wood construction of the Yin Yang project, assembled by IE University students under the orders of professors Ruth Vega and Fermín Blanco.

Yin Yang Project is a learning project based on the use of wood as a building material that takes its name from the double complimentary vision that all nature elements have, according to Taoist philosophy. “All positive has a negative that, at the same time, is its complement”; following this rule the project is divided in two complimentary structures, developed with the educational Lupo System. The results are two actions: a “positive” one with a replica of Segovia’s Roman aqueduct and other “negative” called the Maze. Both structures are brought together in the old stamping room in the Casa de la Moneda, in an exhibit that tries to made the spectator come in to the maze and help build the aqueduct that can be seen along the room.

This is the second work of the Yin Yang Project, thanks to Segovia’s Council, American Hardwood Export Council and IE University collaboration. The design and building of this edition have been done by twenty IE University’s Architecture students, with the mentoring of professors Ruth Vega and Fermín Blanco, being this last the mind behind the Lupo system with which the project has been done.

The opening ceremony, at 9h30, will have Claudia de Santos, Heritage Councillor; David Goodman, Director of the Bachellor in Architecture at IE University; Carlos Kasner of the AHEC and IE University professors Ruth Vega and Fermín Blanco.

Students: Carolina Borreguero, Mirima del Pozo, Víctor Esquivel, Javier Gallardo, Oscar Herrero, Mario López, María Lucas, Pedro Nadal, Andrea Ovando, Rafael Sanz, Susana Suárez, Jacobo Mingorance, Enrique Agudo, Letizia Caprile, Alejandro Díaz, Josephine Elizabeth Gillard, Virginia Junquera, Tunisha Kapadia, Álvaro Federico Menéndez y Elis Misirli.

Wood Aqueduct

The first part of this project took place in the Hay Festival 2012, consisting in the construction of a wooden Aqueduct of more than 3m tall. IE University students and Segovia’s neighbors built an aqueduct made out of US-sourced tulipwood next to the monument. After the festival, it was dismantled in 336 blocks that were moved by a human chain of students and 300 citizens from the Azoguejo Plaza to the Casa de los Picos, where they formed part of the new visual art-work called La Esponja.