See you in court

Så kom veckan för presentation av Västertull och "See you in court!" presenterades; ett projekt som binder samman Rätt och kultur, brottslingar och barn, domare och dansare, trumpetare och tingsmän. Komplexet, en vidarebyggnad av den befintliga Tingsrätten, läcker. Funktioner tittar fram, aktiviteter hörs, många möjligheter till genomgång finnes. Happy times for Lund kort sagt. Här följer ett utdrag från kritiken, vilket blir rätt komiskt när det återges så här i skriven form (blandat svenska och engelska dessutom):

P: Cat walk! Vilket grepp! Berätta lite om väggen. (den tjocka)

B: Lite mer än normal våningshöjd i tornet...hmmm, Tornet viktigt i stadsskalan, längs järnvägen. Ett landmärke när du kommer till Lund...

The image of the project is easy to get. The materiality is harder. Difficult to get a real physical flavour. Is it white or grey and so forth..

You have not really made up your mind.

It's a bit hard to judge if it's a skeleton or a more solid thing standing there. I'm not sure... It seems more like a building than a garden... Is that what you want?

P: The elevation of the tower? I'm not convinced about the visibility of the tower when you arrive by train from the south. Is the tower high enough? Is it designed to be visible from a specific point?

J: It could be a nice backdrop all the way to Knut Den Stores Torg!

B: Most people who will see it have already seen it before. So visibility is more mental than the need of a landmark, I think. More like a memory. I remember Milan... The Torre Valesca. I have it in here... The height. It's not about it... anymore.

I think you should have worked some more with the tower's appearance. That's your project. I'm sorry I've not told you before.

P: Why is the tower standing on a podium? I'm sure you have a good answer. It'll make a border towards Tingsrätten...

B: It's a small structure, small scale when you start looking. How should you explore the structure? Mecchano could be a way to try out the structure. I always did.. as a kid I mean...

P: You decided early in the project that it was supposed to be a tower?!

B: It's interesting to see the beginning of the project and your foam model there... It reminds me of this architect in Austria, Oh my God what's his name?

J: Loos? Hundertwasser?

B: NO!

P: Wittgenstein?

B: NO.

S:60s?

B: No, much earlier, a philosopher as well... Walldorf and all that.

S: Rudolf Steiner.

B: Yes yes, this early is Steiner! Then you introduced the pavilions, very light weight in comparison..

S: yes, it's more tectonic and "åskådliggjort".

B: It's Rogers! And then your tower is both and. It wants to be both...

P: It could be... not a tower but something else.

B: Fundamentally it's a tower. Something polydirectional... But suddenly you make it directional by wrapping it in.

P: Shouldn't the tower HAVE a direction? East-west.

B: You might be, or rather you will be disappointed when you come up there... and only can see in one direction...

How to solve it all is the issue.

Scale it up! 10-15 % in all directions. If you make it wider it needs to be higher. It has got a lot of elements. Reduce them. You read it as a solid surface with a lot of things going on. Compare when you turn off the film in the cinema... the experience and the size of the space.

P: I really like the idea...

B: Me to. And the combination with the court structure is very good. Next step is about "formlära".

P: Also the podium is interesting.

B: But you make a form that turns into a... what's it called, a "klump". Work with the vertical.

P: I want to see something shiny and delicate. A pearl!

P: You've been working a lot...

B: You should have been focusing on the form and the language. Maybe you've been focusing on some things not that important after all...

P: OK, thank you!

B: Next.