amvirke

 

SENTRAL PERIFERI

Katja van Ravenstein and Volker Seifried

 

In situ

Sentral Periferi is meant as a site-specific work in more than just one way. It has been inspired from our early visits on the Internet. First we saw rarely more than a few rocks in the midst of the Atlantique Ocean, but looking closer we realized that most parts of it were covered with wooden constructions. Wood seems to be the material to make this rocky Island accessible. Besides the houses, boathouses and boats there is runways, landings and bridges to cross or reach the water, but no trees.

 

We decided to go for wood as material and to use only the thrown away or left aside boards and planks we would find. By assembling the wood we would also collect the different colors of the Island. We decided to go for a construction alike the practical ways of constructing things in everyday life. A rigid but irregular shaped grid, resembling a stage or rack, that would deal with the double image of crossing a piece of landscape and the formation of the surrounding landscape itself as a product of structure and chance.

 

Samvirke 2014

On site, equipped with digital drawings, a model and a tight time schedule we had to reconsider and change step by step some of the formal decisions taken beforehand. Mainly there had been some concessions to be made according to the spatial conditions, which in the end turned out to be very welcome. The shape the piece now has is literally due to the conditions we have found.

 

The Cape 2015

To finish this project we are happy to place sentral periferi at the western cape of the Island. By elongating the wooden grid downwards partly we have been able to place it in balance over the rocky ground. By the means of putting back respectfully the material we have taken, merely in a different state of composition. The further story of this piece will be up to the wind, the rain and the waves.

 

Katja van Ravenstein:  http://www.katja-van-ravenstein.de/

Volker Seifried: http://www.volker-seifried.de/