- Typology
- Art
- Project
- Sports Memorial 023
- Client
for Thomas Kilpper
- year
- 2018
- Location
- Langer See, Treptow-Köpenick, Berlin, Deutschland
- Competition entry for "Denkzeichen für den Wassersport in Berlin"(Memorial Mark for Water Sports in Berlin).
- team c/o now
- Tobias Hönig, Andrijana Ivanda, Markus Rampl, Paul Reinhardt
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Fig.2301model of the proposal
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Fig.2302In 1973 the organisers of the "World Festival of Youth and Students" decided to tear down the so called "Deutsches Sportdenkmal" on the shore of the Langer See in Berlin. Its pedestal consisted of boulders from cities in the entire German Reich that were sent by sport clubs together with donated money for the erection of the memorial. As the names of the club's hometowns were engraved on the stones and many of this cities in 1973 were part of other countries such as Poland, plus the fact that the memorial was also devoted to the German emperor Wilhelm II, it had to go.
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Fig.2303Historic site plan
Magistrat von Groß-Berlin
On site of the former Sports memorial accrues a tripod slender steel construction which carries - on its highest point at around 12 meters - a treehouse made of driftwood and recycled materials. A simple DIY-construction. The treehouse metaphorically stands for highflying plans and ambitious goals. It awakes associations on romantic childhood fantasies of a small house high in the clouds or rather in the treetops - in our case it stays unattainable. This contradiction - the not achievable - unleashes the longing to be up there. Imaginations are evoked how it would be to see the world, the city and the people from above there, maybe to witness a rowing regatta or a swimming match on the Dahme and how it would be to stay for a night in the treehouse.
In the evening when darkness falls, the hut will be illuminated from the inside, as if someone lives there.
(Thomas Kilpper)