KASTENHAUS 820.10 is an example of a series of Bottle Crate Buildings.
The number code refers to the number of boxes used and the number of stackings on top of each other. Kastenhaus 820.10 is made out of 820 plastic crates, which were produced industrially in the color we decided and stacked 10 times to generate the bended Walls. Of course fixed in a specially elaborated way (invented by us) so that they are stabil buildings for all weather conditions including earth quake. This pavilion here travelled to Yokohama ( Yokohama Triennial 2005 ) and from there over Castleford U.K. ( The Castleford-Project, Channel 4, 2006-08 ) to the wonderful Park of the Philosophische Hochschule Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt (2012-13), where for two years it was a hospitable place for the Seminar. Many events happend there, but also it was a quite shelter for lonesome Wanderers in the Park. Because the plastic crate- walls are easy to dismantle, the Crates are a good ressource: If you don´t need them anymore, you can give them back into the deposit-system, which in this case works very well here in Germany. This Project goes back to our first visible Kastenhaus-Projekt (after some experiments with Crates before) for the international exhibition Skulptur.Projekte in Münster 1997…