Report: Plastic Concrete – Sculptures in the Waldpark in Potsdam
The four organically shaped “terminals” invite passers-by either to stop and rest or to let off steam. The sitting terminal, like an outsize mattress, consists of three layers of reinforced gun-sprayed concrete on a precisely moulded base of cement-bonded sand. Two other structures – a terminal for trampoline jumping and a play terminal – were constructed in a similar way. The rust-red surfaces are partly covered with a layer of rubber. In the slide terminal, visitors climb by various routes to the?entrances of the intriguing tunnel chutes that emerge from the head of the sculpture. In?this case, the base structure is reinforced with in-situ concrete walls, while the?superstructure is encased in sprayed concrete?over expanded metal mesh. We
