Karin Harather,
Norbert Lechner
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Environmental Islands
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The formal concept for the rubbish depot highlights the rubbish skips instead of hiding them. An arrangement of the storage positions organises the skips into formations. The skips are coloured all-over according to a symbolic colour code and can be regrouped to create new patterns of colour every time they are emptied.
Garbage or rather the interim storage of garbage – a topical issue of today – should also be dealt with in formal terms. Accordingly, our concept does not provide for the garbage containers at collecting sites to be hidden but rather to be addressed in a special way, to make them protagonists of design. One, by creating site-specific figurations where – depending on the given site – the containers are arranged in rigid, yet differentiated spatial formations. Two, by painting containers all over on the basis of a symbolic color code – like in a paint box – and grouping them to form new color patterns every time the garbage gets emptied. The resulting emblematic "container sculptures" reflect the heterogeneous urban structure (layout situation) while also networking it (high level of identification). An alternative to the relatively costly in-situ concrete version is the construction of environmental islands from ready-made concrete pieces. Accordingly, we have designed a highly flexible concrete-prefab version whose system is based on only four stone forms and can be easily moved from a municipal construction yard to form any conceivable formation.
(Harather/Lechner)
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