At the end of June 2016 a proposal was submitted for the art-for-architecture competition for the new research building D5 at Regensburg University Clinic. This new building will house the Regensburg Centre for Interventional Immunology (RCI). The purpose of the RCI is to research, develop and apply improved therapy methods against cancer, infections and autoimmune diseases. It is concerned above all with the therapeutic use of especially effective immune cells, T-lymphocytes. The art concept therefore addresses the employees of this research institution and refers to their field of work, under the title “Lymphozytorama".
of an immune cell
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fighting pathogens
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fighting pathogens
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of the east façade
in the courtyard
of the new building
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of the east façade
in the courtyard
of the new building
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of the courtyard
(photo montage)
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The concept:
Lymphozytorama is an image that encompasses space and directly addresses the workers and researchers in the building D5. The intention is that the people who are active here should take possession of their new research building. For this purpose we display to them a visual equivalent for their discipline, their task, their world. Lymphozytorama is an image from immunology. Immune cells, or T-lymphocytes, are made into visual protagonists. The interventional aspect is realised by means of a dynamic visual drama. In this way, interventional immunology not only becomes a theme, but is sublimated. The researchers gain a new – an aesthetic – approach to their material. The sphere of professional expertise becomes a sphere of experience.
Relationship to the architecture:
The courtyard of the new research building is the spatial basis of the image, and is incorporated into the visual event of Lymphozytorama. The orange-red of the west façade establishes the basic colour, and thus becomes part of the image. The east façade continues the basic colour and develops the image itself from this ground. The basic orange colour is opened up and orchestrated. The greater the distance of image elements from the basic surface, the more intense and dynamic the coloration. Through the spatial depth of the image, the closed inner courtyard opens to an imaginary wideness. The rows of windows on the east façade are, as it were, in the image, and thus constitute a shaping factor. The image is inscribed into the courtyard in such a way that the space within the building becomes an active image source.
Technical execution:
Lymphozytorama is to be produced by digital printing on extremely thin (and therefore light) bonded aluminium sheets. The print layer is protected against UV rays and the effects of weather. The sheets are cut out at the image contours so that the original wall cladding remains visible in the colourless zones.