Templo Floor is a lighting sculpture for floor applications. Developed as part of a site-specific installation for the patio of Mármoles Covarrubias's family house during “Transforming the Stone”, a one-week workshop organized by Samael Covarrubias.

When I first saw the Valle’s patio, I thought it was a perfect space, between indoors and outdoors, enlightened by its opening to the sky. In there, four olive trees grow clustered by eight columns of grey rock, a corridor of red and yellow tiles, and carpentry frames carved in marble.

My proposal aimed to light up the space at night with four wall sculptures of grey stone and honey onyx marble. In the center, a lightbox enclosed in stone could serve as a table and meeting point for gathering around.

Mármoles Covarrubias is a family company dedicated to stone fabrication. From their factory in Guadalajara, México, they manufacture custom marble pieces for architectural and artistic projects. Although their craftsmen are capable of sculpting any type of design, they are specialists in slab construction. “Pollo”, the head of the workshop, built the pieces I designed with marble dead stocks.