ZUMTHOR. PABELLÓN HANNOVERANA JULIÁ+LAURA VALL+ELENA ZAERA

A PILE OF WOOD“Klangkörper Schweiz” – Switzerland as Resonating Body

…from the very outset I had the Keeling that this was not the place to try and say anything about Switzerland.

…if you ask me what this thing has to do with Switzerland at all, my answer will be: nothing.

 …that’s our aproach. Architecture, sound, words, food and drink will link up to form

a total experience, a performance…

 …a performance that changes all the time and reacts to the current situation, to streams of visitors, wind and weather.

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Our inicial aproach was to say to ourselves: we will do something for the visitors, something that they can use, a kind of civilized rest-house, where they don’t have to learn anything about Switzerland.

…I am not only the architect but also the artistic head of the whole “Klangkörper Schweiz” project.

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