Twin three-fourths pillars: Placed underneath the ceiling openings, the pillars correspond to a realistic scale but have no supporting function. Through a layered and permeable filter of fluorescent tubes, ceiling beams, movable slats, roof grating and glass roof, the view opens up into the sky. Opened ceiling: Two large ceiling panels are hinged down, uncovering the infrastructure of the rooflight construction. Part of the infrastructure is a rooflight construction hidden behind ceiling panels covered by dim foil, producing a regular, naturally appearing light in the space. Any dependency on the underground is formally and materially removed. Neutral exhibition spaces of immaterial appearance and identical character are dimensioned according to a basic module and held together by a non-hierarchical grid and the invisible infrastructure. Located on the fourth floor of the building that seems to consist of no more than frameworks and lightweight facade elements, the museum is barely connected to the outside space. A precondition of a building activity, the improvement and construction of the geological underground as as a factor of urban development and a spatial process is not anymore visible in the architecture and its built surroundings. By then, the diffuse shore line that had shifted several times due to natural fluctuations of the water level was made firm and fixed in its current position. The „palindrome“ in the title, replacing the German palindrome „Reliefpfeiler“, which is a synonym for a pilaster but first of all sounds like a description – a pillar with relief –, stands for a context reference equally upwards and downwards represented by the vertical axis and its materialization.Ĭontext: The ground underneath the building in which the museum is situated used to be marsh with reed islands until mid of the 19th century and was turned into a constructible zone through drainage and landfill. “, PALINDROME FOR MANAGED CONDITIONS develops not only a sculptural presence, but also a function of memory and reference. Vertically set into the space, the pillars act as a conceptual axis between the underground of the building and the lighting of its spaces. Controlled conditions of ground and light are the frame of reference to the work and appear physically in the shape of fine traces in the pillars’ surface. However, their dysfunctional construction points beyond the frame of the architectural interior to space-making structures and processes which support the building as a system but remain hidden beyond its visible surfaces. Two twin three-fourths pillars combined with an intervention into the ceiling of the architecture make a sculptural statement that changes the immediate experience of the space and suggests multilayer reflections on constructed space and its conditions.įreestanding, vertical, of geometrically shaped form, the pillars in their spatial context can immediately be read as potentially architectural or architecture-related elements.

Remain hidden synonym