20.000 Morgen, 2016
32 landscape-models by Thorsten Goldberg for the new building of a guesthouse of the THW (Federal Agency for Technical Relief) federal school in Neuhausen auf den Fildern/Germany
This project deals with the question: Where would we end up, if we went in a straight line in one direction, didn’t stop and never turned off? What would you see looking out the window, if there weren’t any atmospheric effects, pollution or earth curvature?
For the new guesthouse, the artist drew the lines of sight from each window, until they meet with countries and places that relate to the THW (Federal Agency for Technical Relief). After topographical survey these landscapes will be transformed into digital terrain models and built as three-dimensional physical models at a scale of 1:50.000. The surfaces will finally be silver-plated. Each landscape model will be allocated to one guest room. It serves as a reference to the other, faraway place as a vehicle for an imaginary journey.
The clients are the Institute for Federal Real Estate, the Regional Finance Office Karlsruhe / State Building Department Reutlingen, in accordance with the THW (Federal Agency for Technical Relief) federal school in Neuhausen. The 32 landscape-models were conceived in 2015 and will be realized in 2016.
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