Bricolage +
ecological = bricological
The „Forum Stadtpark“
isn’t quite a blind spot in the city of Graz. On the contrary, it is a
well-known and omnipresent space within the cultural life of the city, in terms
of being an institution as well as a real building. Each year the “steirischer
herbst” (styrian autumn) is arriving in the town and is moving in here in 2010.
For 4 weeks the festival occupies this place and aims to convert it into a
spatial as well as social forum of the styrian autumn 2010. How can you achieve
a maximum of attention and real possibilities of different utilization without
blowing up time and costs? The very core of our proposal lies in a quite common
and simple element – the euro-palett. As a standardized and normed mass-product
it was developed for the unrestrained movement of goods. This re-usable and
recyclable pawned object is infinitely available, cheap and has great potential
– if applied in a wily and virtuosic way. Used for purposes other than intended
the EPAL constitutes the module for a temporary architecture like the brick does
for a long-living house. The building material is only leased and afterwards
can be brought to its original purpose of use. The new architecture with an
expiry date crosses and fractures the existing building structure in a spatial as
well as aesthetical way. A productive disturbance. In its short term existence
it aspires toward a massive presence. A new axis breaches the habitual
perception of space and at the same time provides varied new possibilities of
use and performances: i.e. as a foyer, a carpet, an info-point, a stage, a
flight of steps, a grandstand, a terrace, a casino, a bar, an auditorium, an
open-air cinema, a dance floor, a café, a bridge, a gallery, the boards which
mean the world. As an absurd monument – because in spite of the massiveness its
appearance already announces convertibility, decomposition (disassembly) and
disappearance – this structure marks a strong distinctive sign within the
guiding theme.