Soft Screens – work in process

Soft Screens are woven, three-dimesional, screen-like objects that are floating through the building of BBZ in Zurich designed by Gunz Künzle architects. Ranging from 6 m x 3 m to smaller objects, there will be five Soft Screens placed throughout the building. Attached to the ceiling and sometimes softening the corners, they offer soft references and body relations in space.

I was lucky to win the art & architecture competition held by the art collection of canton of Zurich and the building department of canton of Zurich and the project will be inaugurated in autumn 2025 together with a film by Alan Sahin supported by Museum für Gestaltung (Sophie Grossmann) and the art collection of the canton of Zurich (Caroline Morand). 

In the meantime you can see some parts of the process of Soft Screens. 

Photos: own iPhone photos

Visualisation of a large Soft Screen in the building at Limmatstrasse 52 in Zurich. To the right you can see the process of computer based Jacquard weaving sampling on the loom in Bühler, Appenzell.

After finishing the computer files, testing the materials and passing the fire retardancy test (RF3) the weaving could been carried out. The sculptural body of the works will be a metal construction for which we worked on a 1:4 scale which I then bend and welded with Metall Werk Zürich AG.

© Marie Schumann