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For 30 years we have designed landscape and public spaces. Our works are architectural and experimental. Years ago we showed cows in display cases in a paddock, whilst in front of Frankfurt's skyline we built a chess like group of silos as houses for singles. These projects pre-empted the creation of our seminal project - living room. With living room in the medieval Gelnhausen we surpass borders. Its walls do not function as an enclosure, more like a membrane for an urban osmosis, suggesting a swap of public for private, thus mixing the house with Gelnhausen. It offers more than just a cheekily stuck out tongue, with its drawer extended into the public realm, when Thomas Kling's poem on the façade states "...the house is the cave mouth..." We work the non-functional space. We challenge its enigmatic character by questioning: could the physical borders of space be beautiful itself or is the expanse of the void the reason for beauty? This hairsplitting question drives us to distill space from 'space-border' and vice versa. In our tent pictures we confuse the inside/outside by folding, three dimensionally we create house-size vessels with super thin soft walls, in our photographical light works we show space of no mass... formalhaut 2010 |
