"Tore" [Door] – Detail
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Model photograph, competition entry for an installation at the Deggendorf Polytechnic
Painted steel
Planned construction 4 x 4 x 15.65 m
1997
Photo: Rolf Sturm

Deggendorf Polytechnic

[1-2] The doors, placed in the representative entrance area of the Forum, act as a connection between the 'outer' and the 'inner'. Because of their opening or closing they are a link, symbolic and real, between the outside and the inside. The doors also symbolise the various phases in life, they have a relationship to human scale (the first doorway is the size of a normal entrance door – 1 by 2 meters).

The interaction of light and shadow caused by the time of day and position of the sun, their shape, the position from which they are viewed all contribute to create a multifaceted experience.

DP. An explanation of the artistic concept. An extract from the accompanying competition paper. 1997