Nature / Net / Square design
My idea for Unfolding revolves around 3 aspects related to this sports facility that are important to my project.

Nature
When I first visited the ULSZ (University and State Sports Center Salzburg), apart from the fact that everyone is allowed to use the entire sports facility, which brings a spirit of openness, I was most impressed by the breathtaking nature that surrounds this place. The huge mountains and big sky had a strong impact on my perception of the site. And I imagine that many athletes feel the same way.
Nature has inspired the shapes of my sculptures, making them look like abstracted fragments of mountain formations.

Nets
What also struck me as I walked through the facility, both outside and inside, was the strong presence of the material net. I was aware for the first time how much this almost invisible material is a constant in sports.
Nets are not only part of various settings of many games such as volleyball, tennis, basketball, soccer, etc. They are also used in various other functions indoors and outdoors: as a room divider, as a catch net for discus throwers and ball sports, etc ...
It has become clear to me that the net is a fixed part of the architecture of sports.
Based on this observation, I have chosen nets as material for my sculptures.

The space
The third aspect that interested me was to give the site of the competition - currently just an empty space - something of the quality of a real square.
I thought about square design and came up with the Italian piazza as an example of a successful urban situation. Mostly there are important buildings like churches with their campaniles but also architecturally especially beautiful houses, as well as sculptures, in whose shade people stay and use them quasi as scenic background for their promenading. The center remains free.
Following this thought, my idea was to install sculptures on this square.

Pavilions
As mentioned above, mainly from these 3 aspects and my preoccupation with them, a sculptural-architectural work has emerged:
Three gates, three pavilions, three upward striving, walkable sculptures woven from net, which unfold their forms over the square in rising dimensions. Their materiality and dynamic, daring forms create associations with both sports and the surrounding mountain formations. These objects and their positioning on the square have something spatial, something structuring the square, which rises towards the sky and can be seen from afar. As if to make a sign that says: here is the center of this multifaceted sports facility.
My intention is also to create a kind of architecture that offers people interesting places to stay - pavilions, with shade and shelter, color and size, near which people like to sit down and linger. This creates the possibility to experience opposite qualities at the same time: Transparency and security.
Net as a material for the sculptures I chose not only because it fits extremely well in the context, but also because it acts like a drawing in the air and thus allows the sculptures to appear very light and transparent despite their size. What also comes from the transparency of the net is the different experience of the geometric shapes. As you move around each sculpture, new shapes emerge from the different angles and the experience of the sculpture, which is built from 2 simple surfaces, becomes more and more complex.
Furthermore, the nets offer me the opportunity to bring a painterly aspect to the work: The surfaces of the sculptures each consist of 2 stretched nets of different colors, one on each side of the frame. A total of 3 colors are in use: Blue, Red and Green in 3 color combinations: Blue/Red, Red/Green, Green/Blue. The respective combination results in an additional 3 different colors due to the mesh overlay: Blue/Red becomes purple, Red/Green becomes orange and Green/Blue becomes turquoise.
The two nets of different colors are not parallel in their frame, but twisted to each other. Because of the resulting overlapping of the net areas - when passing a pavilion - the saturation of the colors changes and new patterns are created.
What I also imagine will be exciting is how the colors behave against different environmental backgrounds. Whether it's a blue sky or cloudy, a snowy surface or leafy surroundings, the color experience will always be different.

In the end, there is a great lightness expressed through these objects that go up in height and find their balance through a single point. And at the same time an uplifting feeling: with ease the body ventures into movement, from movement comes dynamism and the body unfolds to its limits and the mind beyond.