Splitterwerk

Project: Frog Queen, Graz / Österreich
The building known as "Frog Queen" houses several engineering offices and an attached test facility for an engineering firm based in Graz. The basic geometric shape of the structure is a cuboid. As the visitor approaches the building, the black and white outer skin reveals itself as an ornamental motif viewed at an increasingly large resolution. The interior opens up into an atrium brightly lit by natural daylight. The architects have played here on the dynamic relationship between indoors and outdoors. In the office areas large numbers of individual windows giving onto various aspects appear to frame the views of the surrounding district. These window views combine with large-format photographs of country scenes on the walls to create a kind of ornamental picture installation.

The jury's verdict: "The systematic implementation of the pixel theme displays a confident sense of identity and self-awareness."

Website: www.splitterwerk.at

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