“Forest sculpture” was the title of a light and space installation by landscape architecture students from the Technical University of Munich. For the “Blue Night” in Nuremberg on May 3, 2014, they transformed market umbrellas with bags and LED light tubes into an illuminated forest.

“Like a sea of clouds! Like an illusion! Simply beautiful! Wow!” The visitors to the “Blue Night” are visibly impressed. They gaze almost reverently into the shimmering blue-green treetops. There is hardly anyone who doesn’t pull out their cell phone camera to capture this unreal moment shortly after sunset.
The “forest sculpture” was one of the main attractions of the “Blue Night” on May 3. The theme of this year’s annual cultural event organized by the city of Nuremberg was longing. The basic idea behind the illuminated installation was to translate the everyday location of the main market into a symbolic place of longing.

Landscape architecture students from the Technical University of Munich took the fruit and vegetable market and its visitors on a walk through the woods: into a forest of artificial trees built from typical elements of the market. Market umbrellas became tree trunks, bags became foliage and fruit crates became seats.
For six months, 24 students worked together with the chair towards this moment. Up to 44 students worked on the main market during the six days of construction. The students had to inflate 20,000 plastic bags, assemble 240 wooden pallets, set up 80 market umbrellas and hang them with bags and LED light tubes.

In October 2013, the students entered the design phase through a constructive competition process. After several stages, the “forest sculpture” installation emerged from the 24 proposals, which all participants then worked on together until it was ready for implementation. Numerous questions had to be clarified during the development phase: What is the volume of 20,000 plastic bags and how long does it take to fill them with air? Which light source is suitable and how do I make 400 meters of cable invisible in the square? The students were confronted with hurdles such as fire protection and stability. Burning plastic bags dripping down on visitors, for example, or market umbrellas toppling over in a storm – the installation had to withstand all eventualities.

Understanding and solving the pitfalls of implementation and approval planning is one of the most important contents of “studio1zu1” – a teaching format and field of research of the Chair of Landscape Architecture and Public Space at the Technical University of Munich. Despite all the specifications, regulations and compromises, the installation was to be realized in line with its original intention – and of course within budget. The spontaneous applause after the lighting was switched on was a well-deserved reward for everyone involved.

Forest sculpture, Nuremberg main market, a light and space installation
Chair of Landscape Architecture and Public Space (Prof. Regine Keller), Technical University of Munich;
Project management: Felix Lüdicke; Supervision: Thomas Hauck, Felix Metzler;
Design: Julian Birkmaier, Rita Codea, Franziska Cußmann, Sabrina Daubmeier, Tobias Drexler, Elisabeth Egerter, Vanessa Frisch, Katharina Gebhart, Eva Grömling, Felix Gutmann, Franziska Hepp, Ines Hofmann, Melanie Hölzl, Kristjan Kohu, Yun Kyeong Hoh, Hannah Layer, Martina Lehmann, Theresia Loy, Pim Lucassen, Fabian Obert, Benjamin Schwab, Philipp Uerlings, Georg Wagner, Michael Wenzel

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