LIQUIFER

THE OTHER HORIZON

In Cooperation with Friedel Winkler
Collaboration: Irmgard Derschmidt, Georg Pamperl

A Skyspace
(scheme for a roof extension for private female owner)

...A section of the sky appears, diffuse, shimmering, etheral, flat, and almost tangible. A space between sky and earth is materialized as a colourfield, the otherwise incomprehensable distance seems to have evaporated, inner and outer horizons have become one. And, as at the beginning, the surface entails distance, illusion, perception - without revealing how it could be to fall into the endless blue of the sky.

Daniela Zyman, in “THE OTHER HORIZON”, Exhibition of the work of James Turrell in the MAK 1998

Spatial development Space elements

The Skyspace deals with two skin-covers, which are set lightly on the base and weave themselves mutually into each other to form a distinct space-body-relationship. Both bodies are independent from each other at the surface, at the interface both bodies cross and form several skins -
one pushes itself over the other one - and thus creates an additional level.
For this project a volume was developed, that above all deals with relations of different views and sights between the Earth and the sky, the ground and height, the eye level and the horizon of perception: existing relations were strengthened, and new ones generated. The light atmosphere of the space is casting these relations of the view and it's perception, which are reflected in the interiour space.
The relationship is established from the inside out and the other way round. In the interior a complex spatial structure arranges the flow of space and the usability, which manifests itself by inserted storage reservoirs, as well as levels for sitting or lying.
This one-space is thus structured by infrastructure and the immaterial materiality of light.

Looking into a sky, which looks back at Earth

The view onto Earth is a view into ourselves, a view into the universe, which points from us outward and connects the known beeing with the unknown. The earth represents history, the universe is part of the future, a time, which lies as a place, spatially far away. To be reached in real or through virtual space, processed through our brains ? a
space-ship with "warp propulsion". Looking into a sky , which looks back to Earth; sometimes one feels the desire to be able to visibly detach oneself from the near Earth orbit, to dissolve the usual spatial boundaries in order to establish other ones. This movement becomes the secret and longing view tino the sky ? Space Wanderers with a
wide-angular eye.