K.U.SCH. :
Drinking Fountain in the Park in Seyring

The task of designing a fountain that could be constructed with minimum financial means by handicraftsmen and a construction firm elicited some scepticism in us. Scepticism mainly because we also regarded the building details as being very important as these, for us, were significant in completing the total package of a work’s message. Precisely the cheap aesthetic of mass design is, for instance, difficult to circumvent in prefab installation pieces. For us it was thus a challenge. It was also a challenge to make the drinking fountain not appear as such at first glance, that is to say there was supposed to be an element of irritation. Another task was to create a site-related field of tension, in the park situated between the old castle and the new school building. In a balance of contrast and harmony. Thanks to an exemplary collaboration with the artisan firms the final product now largely corresponds to our ideas. Only the radiuses of the five arches describing the water falling to the ground did not turn out the way we wanted to, since some of them spill onto the outlet grid and thus unnecessarily splash the drinker. To regulate the amount of the individual jets of water would, however, be technically complicated and costly.
(K.U.SCH.)