Juergen Mayer H. | HIGHER ATLAS

Jürgen Mayer H.

photos by Alia Radman

photo by R.V.Wienskowski

Satellight, 2012
Found data protection pattern, perforated metal, structural support in metal, timber, concrete

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A layer of satellite dishes covers the old city of Marrakesh as a communication crust, – a window to the digital world and social media so crucial to the current dynamic transformations. Satellight is a dysfunctional satellite dish made with a found Arabic numbers dataprotection pattern in handcrafted perforated metal. Oversized and displaced it echoes a complex relationship between Arabic numbers, data protection patterns, Islamic geometries and the numerics of contemporary communication and social interactivity.A layer of satellite dishes covers the old city of Marrakesh as a communication crust, – a window to the digital world and social media so crucial to the current dynamic transformations. Satellight is a dysfunctional satellite dish made with a found Arabic numbers dataprotection pattern in handcrafted perforated metal. Oversized and displaced it echoes a complex relationship between Arabic numbers, data protection patterns, Islamic geometries and the numerics of contemporary communication and social interactivity.

Jürgen Mayer H. (b. 1965) is the founder and principal of this crossdisciplinary studio. He studied at Stuttgart University, The Cooper Union and Princeton Universtiy. His work has been published and exhibited worldwide and is part of numerous collections including MoMA New York and SF MoMA. National and international awards include the Mies-van-der-Rohe-Award-Emerging-Architect-Special-Mention-2003 ,Winner Holcim Award Bronze 2005 and Winner Audi Urban Future Award 2010. Jürgen Mayer H. has taught at Princeton University, University of the Arts Berlin, Harvard University, Kunsthochschule Berlin, the Architectural Association in London, the Columbia University, New York and at the University of Toronto, Canada.

J. MAYER H Architects’ studio (founded 1996 in Berlin, Germany) focuses on works at the intersection of architecture, communication and new technology. Recent projects include, a student centre at Karlsruhe University the villa Dupli.Casa near Ludwigsburg, Germany (2008) and the redevelopment of the Plaza de la Encarnacion in Sevilla, Spain (2011), the office building ADA1 in Hamburg, Germany (2007) and the extension of the science park in Danfoss, Denmark (2007). From urban planning schemes and buildings to installation work and objects with new materials, the relationship between the human body, technology and nature form the background for a new production of space.

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