After I finished school in Leutschenbach I had no commission to build anything in Switzerland, so when I was invited to submit a proposal to represent Switzerland at the Venice Architecture Biennale, it was an ideal opportunity to finally build something for my home country. The built project was supposed to be a space without reference to any other space, one with no propagandist or pedagogical intention. A space beyond any rational understanding. A space that you can only experience, enjoy, or question on your visit to the Venice Architecture Biennale. The term incidental space was quite ironic since we produced more than 200 models with students at the ETH Zurich to find the right shape and made a huge effort to build within the very limited time frame and budget. Meant to exceed our understanding of the architectural space, this project does not come through with drawings, models, or pictures yet remains entirely an architectural project, since it solves not only the general challenge of nonrepresentational architecture but also the purely architectural problem of how to create a space that feels endless, on a tiny plot.
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