Photo: Tomas Riehle; © Stiftung Insel Hombroich
IIB
and Archive
Raketenstation / Rocket
Station
Architect: Erwin Heerich, 2000
Photo:
Tomas Riehle; © Stiftung Insel Hombroich
Schnecke
/ Snail
Architect: Erwin Heerich, 1993
Photo:
Tomas Riehle; © Stiftung Insel Hombroich
Hohe
Galerie / High Gallery
Architect: Erwin Heerich, 1983
Exhibition
sponsored
by:
Ministry for Building and Transport of North Rhine
Westfalia; City of Neuss; Stadtwerke Neuss; GWG Gesellschaft für Wohnungs-und Gewerbe-Bau; Zumtobel Staff |
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September 23
– December 31, 2005
Opening Reception October 7
Galleries: Kohn
Pedersen Fox Gallery, HLW Gallery, South Gallery,
Judith and Walter Hunt Gallery, Mezzanine Gallery
Hombroich
spaceplacelab is a laboratory for alternative modes
of living. The exhibition will feature 14 projects
integrating art, architecture and landscape by renowned
architects and artists from around the world. The projects
will form a new settlement next to the existing Museum
Island Hombroich and a former NATO missile base near
Cologne, Germany.
http://www.inselhombroich.de/
The
exhibition was presented at the Architecture Biennale
in Venice 2004.
Curator
and Exhibition Design: Hoidn Wang Partner, Berlin
About Hombroich spaceplacelab
In
the international context, an unusual development is
being undertaken in the environs
of the Museum Island Hombroich and the adapted former
NATO missile station.
Here,
people will be able to simultaneously live and work,
pursue their own ideal leisure activities
in the
immediate context of a new landscape. Here, alternative
modes of living will become possible.
A
hitherto intensively used agricultural expanse will
be reshaped over the
course of the next 25 years or
so into an extensive landscape with woods, wild meadows
and small-scale farming.
Only
up to one tenth of the site will be occupied by buildings
according to the
proposals of thirteen
designers
from Germany and abroad.
Hombroich
spaceplacelab is a domain for experiments for people
who are searching
for another relation
between modes of living and landscape. In this
experimental domain
there will be enough space for other life styles
and
other living beings.
In
the case of Hombroich spaceplacelab, unusual design
processes are being pursued,
which suit
the gradually
growing needs emerging from the local level.
Each quarter’s
design is resolved, neighbouring quarters are
tuned to each other. There is no large, all
commanding master
plan.
Together
with the newly gained, publically accessible landscape,
the various instances
of future modes
of living will enrich the cultural landscape
of the Lower
Rhine
region.
–
Wilfried Wang, Curator
The
following designers are currently involved in Hombroich
spaceplacelab:
Raimund Abraham, New York, U.S.
Tadao Ando, Osaka, Japan
Shigeru Ban, Tokyo, Japan
Rudolf Finsterwalder, Stephanskirchen, Germany
Sverre Fehn, Oslo, Norway
Martin Heerich, Düsseldorf, Germany
Anatol Herzfeld, Neuss, Germany
Thomas Herzog Partner, Munich, Germany
Hoidn Wang Partner, Berlin, Germany
Per Kirkeby, Hellerup, Denmark
Krischanitz & Frank, Berlin, Germany
Oliver Kruse, Neuss, Germany
Daniel Libeskind, New York, U.S.
Katsuhito Nishikawa, Neuss, Germany
Frei Otto, Leonberg, Germany
Alvaro Siza, Porto, Portugal
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