Typical garden climbers are planted against the pergola to enhance the character of a garden. It is the restraint of this formal composition that facilitates the surreal cognitive and sensual pleasures of the space : a simultaneous blurring of the public and the personal, of content and context. It is a space that is activated by the implicit participation of its proximate public. Indeed its extraordinary physical location as well as the ad hoc congregations of museum visitors laying on the grass, animating the mirrored surfaces, both watching and being watched, both looking out and looking in, are critical materials to the work itself. The work occupies a threshold between introversion and extroversion, both projecting and reflecting ambient atmospheres, generating a condition both more intimate and more panoramic than its actual footprint. On a fine local scale, the composition juxtaposes the tacticalities of artificial turf, ivy, glass and steel. On a broad historical scale, these serialized, generic components were at the time of their introduction heralded as model democratic materials for the new post-war private backyards of American suburban homes. This pre-fabricated and insulated attitude towards the outdoors immediately enters into a dialogue with the biodiverse elysium of Central Park. The park is an equally artificial landscape and was equally conceived of as a democratic right of the public, but with a vastly different spatial expression. This tension is enhanced by the visual continuity of the two adjacent spaces: hovering just above the treeline of Central Park East, the roof garden seems to unfold onto the park itself.
Steiger Concept
Architektur ist Ausdruck von Denken und Handeln. Am Anfang steht die Suche nach Logik und Essenz. Es entstehen Ideen und Gedanken. Diese fassen wir in Worte – nicht in Bilder, Formen, Farben. Diese Schlüsselwörter sind Methode. Sie sind Referenz und roter Faden für jeden Gedanken und Strich. Sie liefern Kriterien für Entscheide. Sie befreien unsere Arbeit, stellen persönlichen Geschmack oder Stilvorlieben in den Hintergrund. Darauf bauen wir auf: mit Grafisch-Erzählendem, Non-Verbalem, Skizzen und natürlich Entwürfen. Und bewussten Irritationen und Überraschungen. Die Form ist Resultat.
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