Posted by Architectural project
Location _Saarlouis
Concept _On the flattened mound plateau of this rough and coal-black wasteland we are positioning a fine, intricate and compositionally balanced web of steel cables, bridges and steel truss-like towers. Their delicateness and linearity, their like electrically charged, shimmering immateriality form an extreme opposite to the compacted massive, monolithic, black coal slag heap. We transform the theme of mining conveyor systems and towers, the inclined hoists and cable winches into an airy, light, ephemeral overall composition which, due to its asymmetry, is in a delicate state of equilibrium. A slanting, steel truss tower carries the large viewing platform with café and adjoining rooms at a height of + 15 metres above the top of the mound, and the smaller panorama platform at + 50 metres above the top of the mound. In its inner core there is a rope-pulley driven inclined lift, which triggers associations of comparable conveying systems and towers in the industrial coal mining.
OZA _Studio for Architecture and Scenography 