xy²

Description

This experimental spatial design is dedicated to the development of spatial models to organise and define urban space. The focus is on deriving the organisation of space and spatial bodies from the model of a ‘naturally’ grown structure, in order to reconstruct the historical growth process of the old town and to transfer it in an imitable way to contemporary urban expansions. Black plans are created by ‘xy2’, whereby the areas to be planned are taken from existing spatial structures and act as supporting volumes for the creation of new spatial volumes. Based on the historically developed urban morphology, the “new” spatial bodies crystallise out of a sodium chloride solution. The point at which the formation of a crystal begins cannot be clearly manipulated by indication or specification and remains in two-dimensional space as the unknown ‘x,y’.