The School creator was Walter Gropius, and Sergio Sebastián has taken as inspiration the drawing of the first manifesto made by the German architect (1919 text accompanied by the expressionist drawing of Lyonel Feininger) to proclaim the birth of the Bauhaus. A timely reference with a very interesting result, a square that is also one of the doors to Madrid, from the A-6, one of those stops that you should not miss in Madrid whether or not you came to see its Christmas lights.
Project description by Sergio Sebastián
BaumHaus is the new lighting tree we have planted on the Cardenal Cisneros Sq. in Madrid.
We wanted to honor the centenary of Bauhaus school, one of our most important referents about contemporary artistic culture. Feininger or Larionov’s expressionists drawing lines and Gropius’ texts arrive to Moncloa district as a tree made of cristal and metal geometry. That is why we have named it Baum (german word for tree) Haus.
It is placed in one if the main doors of Madrid, and it was supposed to satisfy a need never considered before. The road to La Coruña is a main highway, crossed by constant movement flows: lots of vehicles that appear and emerge from the city in a very quick way.
Our response should have the enormous strength of an unprecedented thing, of an icon, of an image with the necessary power to emerge as a reference in this place and also should work by day and night.
It has been also a challenge for both the manufacturers and installers: 24 metres high, eight freight trucks, and five days of intense work in situ that convert it in one of the more sophisticated installations ever made in this city.
