In early July 2021 a proposal entitled “miteinander” (“together”) was submitted for a competition for the Abtswald nursery in Wörth am Rhein. A design for the façade was originally foreseen. The solution consisted of a modular system with colour codes that are also suitable as a system of orientation indoors.
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“miteinander” is an artistic concept representing a consensus. Several elements join to make a whole, like children in a group. Several wholes are placed one next to the other, thus showing that they are distinguishable but of equal importance, like the groups in the Abtswald nursery.
The formal vocabulary uses four floral shapes – representing the four groups in the nursery – which can be seen as a flower or as a configuration of leaves. They have the same form. They differ in their colours. The flora is complemented by fauna: creatures like butterflies that are formed from the same visual vocabulary.
The formal vocabulary has a child-like style, in that a diagonal block is the basic module from which the further configurations are generated. The effect of identification takes place on several levels. All of the children identify with the motif of the row of leaves and flowers, and recognise their place in it. As the same time they identify with their group, which is emphasised through its own colour.