2017

öffentlich zugänglich

Kindertagesstätte Aubing-Ost-Straße 66, 81245 München

Fassaden-Klang-Installation, 6 Röhrengongs und Zeichnung in die Eternitfassade gefräst

Architecture: Zwischenräume Architekten + Stadtplaner

Landscape architecture: Barbara Weihs Landschaftsarchitektur

Photos: Christoph Mukherjee

Text: Matthias Supé

The kindergarten and elementary school phase is full of upheavals, which is why security and consistency is important at this stage of life in particular. These feelings can best be conveyed to children when teachers and parents empathically “resonate” with them, as psychologists would say. 7.83 Hertz is a statement about this phenomenon, and it is made palpable and visible in exciting, multilayered ways.

First, in the form of six tubular gongs outside, which provide actual, physical vibrations. They are tuned by the sound expert Wolfgang Deinert, based on the common fundamental of 7.83 Hertz—the so-called Schumann resonances, which occur in the earth’s atmosphere and, to put it simply, is the basic frequency of these resonances in the human habitat.

These abstract processes can also be experienced through rippling, forward moving, “reaction drawings” milled into the Eternit façade, challenging children to explore them with their fingers. Even the color scheme for the window frames and blinds is not coincidental: on the light spectrum, yellow and green correspond exactly to the frequencies emitted by the tubular gongs, meaning, that if the sounds had colors, they would be yellow and green.

In this work of art, Silvia Wienefoet pursues her approach of addressing the perception of architecture and public space from a specifically interpersonal perspective. She interprets the day care center not as a building, but as a resonant body. The result is an exciting, profound installation whose facets range from physics to psychology.