Brick Award 2010 Siza & Finsterwalder

Production of an architectural video for the Brick Award 2010
Special prize: Álvaro Siza, Rudolf Finsterwalder
Museum of Architecture, Island of Hombroich Foundation, Germany

Since 1983, patron of the arts and collector Karl-Heinrich Müller has been erecting exhibition buildings, one after the other, in a nature park on the island of Hombroich near Neuss, Germany. A short time ago, the Portuguese construction artist, Álvaro Siza in collaboration with the architect of St. Stefan’s Church, Rudolf Finsterwalder, designed a new architecture museum in the same area. This unpretentious, quiet building is constructed almost entirely in brick. When, in the warm sunlight, the brick walls glow a deep red and the oak windows and doors glow honey yellow, the building, together with its green surroundings, seems to melt into an impressionistic painting. The respect the architects applied through this building – and these materials – for to the surrounding natural environment becomes apparent. The bricks have been recycled, following the demolition of another building and are therefore worn and chipped. Hardly any of them have retained their original sharp corners and edges and around 22 per cent still show the white paint of their earlier use or at least, the remnants of it. The net result is a lively, patterned and fiery ‘living’ wall.
(www.brick10.com)


Production: ZONE Media
In close cooperation with Ute Woltron.

Producer: Benno Pichler
Editing & Project Management: Eva Pfaffeneder
Camera: Peter Gstach
Sound: Atanas Tchokalov, Ralph Windisch
Digital Editing: Peter Gstach
Motion Graphics: Claudia Nussbaumer
Production Assistant: Boris Steiner

Commentary: Ute Woltron

Commissioned by Wienerberger AG