Bad Fürstenberg

BAD FÜRSTENBERG is an installation that showes with simple means the interaction between illusion and refection.
The word “Bad” means in German as much as spa, bath and swimmingpool. There only seems to be water involved, the depths of the pool is an optical illusion and calling Fürstenberg officially a spa is pur fiction. Although it used to be a health resort.

Large windows give insight into the space of the past resort administration. Above the entrance is written “Bad Fürstenberg” in black letters.

The virtual swimmingpool inside the building appears through a ceiling marked with black lines, a tiled rear wall and a reflecting ground floor out of blue-tinted glass.
The mirror image of the interior is what creates the illusion of a deep pool, to be seen from outside the windows.