public art installations

MINERS’ MEMORIAL

The project has been won through open public competition and is currently under construction. The Czech city Most had been built as a mining capital throughout the 20th century. Recently the industry has experienced a sharp decline and together with the severe environmental impact have led to the conclusion of closing the mines, which are currently undergoing a decommissioning and will close in due course. The memorial is meant to be a reminder of the city’s origin and the transformation the whole region has gone through. On the main plaza, a stripe of greenery is being lifted up and reveals a deep relief that aims to capture the transformation that the industry has caused to the landscape of the whole region. The deep scars of the relief recalls the scars in the lives of local people and the imprints that the landscape has su ff ered through the use of mining equipment. The memorial is proposed as a in situ concrete wall that grows from the ground and twist and rotates towards the main plaza creating an alter like wall in the memory of the people and landscape impacted by the industrial activity. The backside of the wall is covered by climbing greenery creating a seamless transition into the grass lawn. The project uses digital fabrication methods (both CNC and large 3d printing ) for the production of the formwork for the in situ concrete relief