SJ
Garten
Garten
Weimar
A stretch of hilly ground near the coast, the continuity of lavish pastures, punctured here and there by a bush or tree. Inside this scenery a series of masses are placed along a grit resulting in a composition of masse and void.

The resulting field like structure stretches several mounds as well as the hollows between them. At a precise height of a hollow a vertical cut along a specific height-line sections all the masses it encounters and by taking away the sectioned part, which faces the hollow, creates an empty space inside the field — some sort of clearing en plein air. Each of the sectioned concrete volumes has a curved shape, which contrasts the rectangular shape of the rest of the volume and all other volumes behind it.

From outside the field, the rigid linear geometry of the concrete volumes contrasts with the smooth geometry of the surrounding landscape. After entering between the volumes, at a certain point, the rigid geometries of the volumes are suddenly replaced by the smooth geometry of the empty space. Once inside this space everything around is made of the same geometry as the rest of the landscape.

In this place different scales encounter: the scale of the ocean with the scale of the coast, the scale of the landscape with the scale of a single object, but also different times encounter: the time of the weather, of light with the time of vegetation. Finally, the continuity of the mineral encounters the fast moving pace of the other temporal dimensions around it.

One drop of rain, one gust of wind after the other, the mineral exposes its own temporal dimension: the concrete of the volumes loses its integrity and after some time, beyond our comprehension, the field of volumes will be gone, and the former empty space contained in the field will have been replaced by a plane of gravel. The material of the volumes now occupies the hollow in a different form, rendering its geometry through a horizontal plane made out of small stones and debris.
Design by Stephan Jung