The idea to actually having a pier came when he walked around the Aasee lake (the venue of the event) and saw a very beautiful lake, with the background of the panoramic view of the city, top up with great landscape of the park itself, giving an imprompt idea to Jorge to have a very long pier to the middle of the lake.
His main intention is to manipulate every great views of the place to be incorporated with his pier. In order to make to experience while contempleting the views becoming more interesting, he had chosen a hexagonal shape, top up with walls and roof in certain arrangement, to actually create some sort 'hide and seek' game with the viewers as the players.
It is actually indirectly a way to provoc the viwers to start exploring the pier by themselves. Element of stairs and platform are used to make the experience becoming more dramatic with the viewers having different views and interpretation along their journey. Apart from that, he is actually giving the freedom for the viewers of chosing their own exploration path. The most interesting part is, whenever they are tired, they could just sit down and dip their legs, experiencing the coldness of the lake's water.
Site Location
The cigarrate box with Jorge's caricature at the siteOne element that I found very interesting is when he placed a cigarette vending machine at one of the walls with his caricature by the side is something different to be incorporated with the design. However, he said that his main intention is to disturb viewers concentration inside the pier by puzzling them with something that would make them pause for a while and think. It is his way of grabbing the viewers attention from something 'functional' to something which is not, like art.
Here is the video of about an interview with Jorge Pardo, discussing about his works.
Here is the video of about an interview with Jorge Pardo, discussing about his works.
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