The Flying Grass Carpet
Foto: HUNK-design & ID-Eddy
"The Flying Grass Carpet" is a unique and temporary park that can land everywhere. Its oriental pattern - generated by using different types of artificial grass - makes it appear like a giant Persian carpet. Once landed in a city, the flying carpet turns into a perfect stage for different experiences.
Since the carpet provides a green space in the middle of city life, it invites people to meet and to talk to each other. Like in every other park, too, the flying carpet allows them to play, to relax, to have a picnic or to attend various performances. A more and more increasing privatisation of the cities leads to a shrinkage of public places and, therefore, a loss of the quality of life. "The Flying Grass Carpet" offers to all the inhabitants and visitors of the Ruhr Metropolis a nice alternative to enjoy the city and to look at it from a different point of view. Throughout July 2010, the carpet will turn the Willy-Brandt-Platz in Essen into a public oasis, before it is supposed to take to the skies and bring a bit of colour and cosiness to other cities.
Event:
July 1 - 31, 2010: Willy-Brandt-Platz, Essen
Project:
Bart Cardinaal, HUNK-design, Rotterdam (NL) / Eddy Kaijser, ID Eddy, Rotterdam (NL) / Christine Göhler, planungsbüro vierfahrt/4F, Essen (D) / Achim Pfeiffer (Heinrich Böll Architekt), Essen (D)
Partner:
Dipl. Ing. Heinrich Böll, Architekt BDA DWB, Essen (D) / Caesar Foundation (NL)
More:
WWW.FLYINGGRASSCARPET.ORG