Turm der Landesausstellung

Wooden tower for the Tyrol regional exhibition 2005

THE OVERCOMING

Big mountains. Big threats. Big Memories. Big Wall. Protection, Security. There is no place for tenderness, no huddling to the wall, which can resist 11 tons per squaremeter, no fooling around. The remembrance of vanquishing the avalanche-retaining wall on the other hand should stay in mind for a long time. The Path is staged as spatio-temporal experience, that suprises, amazes and provokes thoughts.

THE MASS

The Visitor is confronted with a massive, raw, 2500m³ wood mass that is layered in a non-readable manner. No Building, no staircase; a cube with 15m side-length out of stacked tree log´s. With 14m height, obvoiusly stacked higher than on normal sites near sawmills. The movement of the visitor creates the path. The space is not cut out, it is made by pushing out the logs. The interior space transformes into volumes which can be recognized from the outside.