Concept:
To go through and to reach out. To connect the stable element with the growing elements.
Development:
Located in former barracks in a city of heavy military history, Tower Kronprinz is a big and massive building that carries a strong defensive feeling. This military architecture is like a shell enclosed in it itself. The project is designed to break this architectural message.
The series of light lines bond the various elements together and create circulations and movements in place of the original no man’s land surrounding space.
The lines set at different levels and angles radiate from the core of the tower to connect with its settings. Air and trees, breathing and growing elements, are linked to the thick and passive edifice that can now absorb this vital energy.
Build solid, impenetrable and resistant to the external environment, the outdoor now becomes a vital source for the building. In a reverse movement, the inside reaches out the external world.
Going in, out and through, the lines connect the various sides of the building. The lights are pass ways between the inside and the outside, the front and the back, the before and the after. It is a call for discovery and exchanges.
With the light lines, the tower is no longer a divider but a connecting platform.
Curated by: Elena Tsvetaeva, Yulia Bardun, Anastasia Karpenko.
Commisioned by : NCCA - Kaliningrad, National Centre for Contemporary Art, the Russian Museum
With the support of: NCCA, "Saison française" in Russia 2010, French Institute in St Petersbourg, Culturesfrance
Technical realisation of the project: OOO «NeonikaN» (Kaliningrad).
Technical info: welded metal rods: 3 x 4 cm, total lenght 55 m
Neon tubes: Ø 15 mm, total lenght 100 m
Transformers: 9 units, each of 200Kw -30 mA
