Picture of the project 'Pillars'
Year:2002, competition entry, 1. prize
Location:Zittau, Library of the University
Client:Building Surveyor’s Office Bautzen
Architects:nps & partner
Light technics:electroluminescence foil
Just as pillars carry the building, they are also supposed to carry art. On both levels, ferroconcrete pillars surround the areaway. They receive a surface of luminescent foil, that may be dimmed, and transform the static pillars into sensual bodies of peculiar, atmospheric lightness.