In cooperation with Martin Stenger

Winning project of the art & building competition for Innsbruck's new University and Provincial Library Innsbruck, 2009



The library reconstruction in the basement of the university building on Innsbruck's Blasius Hueber Straße has eight 9x3-metre glazed atria, through which daylight shines into the interior rooms from the above. Reading places for the visitors and offices of the employees are both grouped around the atria. The walkable library roof at the same time serves as an access level to the university building. Passers-by can look into the atria, lined by glass balustrades, from above. 
These atria were selected as locations for the art installation 'On Stones'. Three elements constitute the concentrative focus and at the same time widely communicating elements of the installation: boulders placed in the courtyards, white rings spread across the floor of the courtyards taking up the form of the respective stone, as well as text quotes from a novel by Christoph Ransmayer, which are mounted on the glass balustrades.

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