In early March 2020 the concept “Wurzel-Blüten” (Root-Flowers) was submitted as a competition entry for the premises of the municipal gardeners for the Office of Parks and Cemeteries of the City of Koblenz.
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Roots and flowers are the two opposite poles of the plant: poles in the treatment of the plant in respect of the activity of the gardener, and poles of the cycle of life in respect of burials. The object entitled “Wurzel-Blüten” brings these poles together and represents a merging of roots and flowers.
In the formal structure of the proposal, roots and flowers are mutually constitutive. A two-part root, geometrically abstract, provides the basic module. The overall structure is generated from this module. Flowers are formed and interlace, with the root module as a basis. Roots and flowers make an integrated unit, a plant entity. The colour does not distinguish the individual flowers but operates across the flowers. What is important is not the individual but the context, the whole.
The Object “Wurzel-Blüten” consists of several lasered steel sheets (with a thickness of 8 mm), welded together at an angle of 30° in each case to form a whole. The object is firmly screwed to a concrete foundation. The foundation and the attachment are covered by gravel or mulch so that the object appears to be growing out of the ground. The maximum height is 2.80 m, the maximum width 2.60 m. The shape of the root flowers is painted on to both sides of the metal object.