Blaue Stunde — Ein utopischer Blick auf die Architektur von Städten — Lena Breitmoser

Blue hour is a spatial sketch. A collection of thoughts. A design in which chance, the lighting conditions of the exhibition space, the wind and the movement of the visitors play an important role.

What hierarchies and systems are inherent in public space? How do its structure and design influence the behaviour of the people who move through it?

Much of our public space functions via hyper-specific or functional spatial structures (train stations, pavements, traffic lights, pipes, parks, benches, etc.) that are only intended to serve a specific purpose and that demand a very specific behaviour or use - anything that goes beyond these rules is considered socially "wrong". These structures are the result of the functionalism of modern society: the pressure to always be as fast and efficient as possible. It is a constant increase that is not designed for compliance or pausing.

By means of graphic approaches, photographs and observations, I tried to approach these spaces/systems and recognise their imposed meaning and purpose, to counteract it and to find a new, playful, completely non-purposeful approach to the places. I created imaginary interventions in the urban space - sometimes larger, sometimes smaller.

The results of this 2D research process, their graphic properties and qualities, were then transferred into real space and materials. My aim here was to make my imagination accessible to others and thus tangible.

I translated my drawings into a new spatial system: an installation made of curved tubes, transparent and translucent fabric panels and Plexiglas panes, which constantly changed depending on the angle of view and movement of the visitors. The result was a play between different levels of scenes and everyday objects that constantly created new spaces and contexts by constantly overlapping, condensing and detaching from each other.

THANKS: Kerstin Bühring, Constanze Fischbeck, HannahHugger, Alex Knoppik, Matthias Mai, Lea Nohr, Thomas Rustemeyer, Sebastian Schäfer und Susanne Schmitt