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Ortrun Lanzner :
Square Design in Großschönau

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Unrealized
Großschönau, 2000

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With her concept for a square with a bandstand in front of the town hall, the architect aimed to create an identifiable landmark with light and trees that suited the functional demands and redefined the spatial context. The design was not realised.

The area between/in front of an old schoolhouse with a garden – rebuilt as the new town hall – and a department store was supposed to be redesigned. With the addition of a music pavilion a place for cultural activities was to be created. A two-piece "connection object" condenses the site and reacts to the existing situation by redefining the adjacent areas with different atmospheres & usages and their spatial and functional contexts. Its surfaces cut into the topographical givens, become superposed. Its boundaries and rims move as connections into the existing spaces. The level, rectangular granite surface that has been set in the square is continued in the ramp that traverses the garden. docked onto here are the platform and the pavilion both forming a compact unity, slightly receding from the ground. The pavilion develops from the larchen platform into a freely cantilevering wooden construction whose movable panels allow various uses. The outer wall lit from behind serves as a source of light and also signals something into the street space. Additional, loosely arranged trees have been planted to structure the garden and to mark its accesses.
(Ortrun Lanzner)