We were invited to Ludwigshafen, Germany to participate in “WERTstadt – Performative Urbanität” (cityVALUES – performative urbanity).

 

Through performances and temporary architectural interventions, our assigned mission was to transform three different sites underneath the elevated highway that cuts through Ludwigshafen.

 

FIGURE GROUND (Day 01)

 

Bordering the inner city of Ludwigshafen, the elevated highway covers a huge parking lot. A concrete space that is now a deserted reminiscent of a time when car-centric urban planning was considered state of the art.

 

We started our performance and intervention series with a typical architectural way of measuring the space by drawing axes and grids. This is one of the first steps of planning and designing. But instead of doing so on paper or in CAD software, we used tape to do it in situ and on a 1:1 scale. Following the dominant white marks of the parking lot, we developed an abstract grid system. The resulting graphic was then elevated to form a web-like organic canopy. The 2D graphic transformed itself into a dynamic 3D space modulator. The resulting moving structure evokes a new way to think and dream about the options to use that abandoned space in a playful way.




We were invited to Ludwigshafen, Germany to participate in “WERTstadt – Performative Urbanität” (cityVALUES – performative urbanity).

 

Through performances and temporary architectural interventions, our assigned mission was to transform three different sites underneath the elevated highway that cuts through Ludwigshafen.

 

FIGURE GROUND (Day 01)

 

Bordering the inner city of Ludwigshafen, the elevated highway covers a huge parking lot. A concrete space that is now a deserted reminiscent of a time when car-centric urban planning was considered state of the art.

 

We started our performance and intervention series with a typical architectural way of measuring the space by drawing axes and grids. This is one of the first steps of planning and designing. But instead of doing so on paper or in CAD software, we used tape to do it in situ and on a 1:1 scale. Following the dominant white marks of the parking lot, we developed an abstract grid system. The resulting graphic was then elevated to form a web-like organic canopy. The 2D graphic transformed itself into a dynamic 3D space modulator. The resulting moving structure evokes a new way to think and dream about the options to use that abandoned space in a playful way.