There’s a Crack in everything…

Competition entry (with Katharina Lottner) for Klinikum der Universität München, new building of the Operation – Centre Großhadern: 200 m concrete wall. Result: reaching the second voting round in the first level of the international open and anonymous art-in-architecture competition.

That’s how the light gets in (Leonard Cohen)

Proposal for Art-in-Architecture competition, Surgery-Center, University Hospital, Munich

Life – Impulse – Reflex – Reaction – Dysfunction – Function

The human body is an organism in which neuronal processes happen with an unfathomably speed.
The Operation-Center is a place where splits of a second can decide between life and death.

Life is barely comprehensible. Very concrete yet incredibly fragile at the same time.

CRACKs inscribes continuous and entangled fine line-structures into the wall outside the operation center. These lines are chiseled into the concrete wall (ca. 7 bis max. 50 mm). A seemingly chaotic organic flow with branchings that has the notion of a neuronal structure. A tender drawing, that inscribes into the wall. It will be filled with acrylic resin (dark red metallic shine: appearance during daylight) and LED-Iods will be installed at the points of intersections (size 1 to 50 mm).

During the day it will be associated with a living and reflecting organic texture, at night CRACKs will turn into pulsing vein, a string of neurons which will be triggered by passerbys.

The light-iods will be controlled by motions sensors. The movement of pedestrians / cyclists / cars triggers a linear light impulse that discharges along the wall according to each moving direction.

Competition entry (with Katharina Lottner) for Klinikum der Universität München, new building of the Operation – Centre Großhadern. Result: reaching the second voting round in the first level of the competition.