ARCH 115
WAYSIDE SHRINE IN CARINTHIA
Draft design in a fax dated June 7, 1999
Description in a letter dated July 12, 1999
On the request of Ulrike and Rudolf Müller, Feldkirchen, Austria
1999
The design corresponds to the shrine with a grass roof in Kaurinui on the path to the mountain hut. See also ARCH 88/VII
mehr weniger- A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, p. 1297 (c)
- Hundertwasser Architektur, Cologne, 2006, p. 314
Hundertwasser's comment on the work
My shrine has a pretty big (1 x 1 m) grass roof which is always green, as a water-absorbing substance will be mixed with the dirt, so that the roof stays green even in the dry weeks. I want them to go out of their way to select old posts, so the shrine does not look new; it would be best if they were weathered fence posts. So no freshly cut wood should be used!
(Hundertwasser in a letter to Ulrike and Rudolf Müller, New Zealand, July 12, 1999)
(from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 1297)