The phrase quotes the image of a man looking out of a black canvas through a round hole from 1961 by Roy Lichtenstein. A speech bubble above it contains the sentence that the man is saying to someone. Roy Lichtenstein took the image from a Steve Roper cartoon by William Overgard from 1961, in which the sentence is preceded by  “Trooper! …” as the person addressed. Like other works by Lichtenstein, it thematizes seeing, reading and recognizing through a technical apparatus and its uncertainty. Here, the text message stands as a luminous headline to the compact body of the computer center. The statement connects with the architecture and seems to question it.
But does “I can see the whole room / place!” only refer to the building or also to the immediate surroundings, the intersection or the landscape … and who could make such a statement from which point of view?
“room” means: space, chamber, place, scope, and in addition to an enclosed space, one also speaks of “room for improvement”, “room to move” or “room for hope” or “s. o. left no room for doubt”. Someone seems to have an overview of all this, but cannot see or recognize anyone and comes to the conclusion that this place is empty.

Commissioned by: the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, represented by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU)
Design 2024, completion 2025
Photos: Thorsten Goldberg

The origin is a wreath woven from three strands, of which a single strand is featured. Without the other strands around which it was originally wrapped, the shape cannot be deduced at first glance - it confuses and also deceives the eye about its orientation like a mirage. The multiple twists have taken on a life of their own, the wreath appears to be moving.

The structure is suspended high overhead in the sky and somehow seems to float casually in the air like a soft ring on the waves. Pigeons have settled on the ring. Most of them sit on the one half, individually or in pairs. But there are also some pigeons sitting upside down underneath the ring. Although the sitting birds are a familiar sight, the naturalness with which some pigeons sit upside down together makes it absurd and dreamlike. A strange gathering in a circle up in the air.
Are the pigeons on the underside different from those on the top of the ring, what do they have in common, are they a mirror image of those on the other side, or is it all the same to sit at the top or the underside? Because when there is no gravity, the ring offers twice as much space to sit on.
Thus the ring with the pigeons resting on it refers to the situation of passage and transition, in that it is itself in a kind of suspended state, does not stand firmly on the ground and seems to transcend boundaries (spatial ~ and physical ~). It hangs almost freely in the air, drawing our view upwards and allowing us to look through it into the sky. Like a strangely floating vehicle in the air, moved by the wind, its shadow also draws a circle on the grass below, which wanders across the path during the course of the day.
The shiny silver ring floating in the air with the pigeons perched on it - like migratory birds on a piece of driftwood - is a symbol of the situation of many people and of the refugee camp itself.

Design 2022, completed 2025
Client: the state of Lower Saxony, represented by the State Construction Management of Southern Lower Saxony
Architecture: dichter Architekturgesellschaft Berlin
Landscape architecture: bbz Landschaftsarchitekten Berlin
Photos: Thorsten Goldberg

Awarding authority: the state of Rhineland-Palatinate represented by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Department of Planning and Construction Management PBM
Competition management: Michael Gahr, architect JGU PBM
Jury: Carsten Allenhofer, ZDV; Dr Ariane Fellbach-Stein, RLP Kultur; Sabine Groß, RLP Landesbau Finanzen; Prof. Dr Stephan Jolie, JGU Presidential Board; Kristina Kochs, architect JGU PBM; Katja von Puttkamer, artist; Dr Julia Wallner, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck

Concept

Concept

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenzdurchgangslager_Friedland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedland,_Lower_Saxony

http://www.dichterarchitektur.de/projekte/muf.html

https://www.bbz.la

Concept

https://www.bundesimmobilien.de/bw-zentralkrankenhaus-koblenz-9792b2a73266234e

http://www.akg-architekten.de/architekten/projects/99/352

Mount Chown 119°26‘W, Mount Okmok 168°10’W, Zhupanowski 159°08’E, Da Hinggan Range 123°30’E, Mweelrea 9°49’W

Gilded concrete cast, 24 kt Gold leaf, approx. 17.5 x 16.5 cm, different heights, each in four parts.
Edition, 2021