Bregenz Hafen glass graphics – a visible code, an encrypted text

Reinhard Gassner

For the harbour building of the City of Bregenz, an effective visual screen for 80 bays of full-height glazing was to be developed that would not impair the transparency of the building envelope. The basis for the concept is provided by band of text in the shape of a rhythmical, graphical system of symbols of an abstract binary basic code; instead of 0/1, black and white are used in the form of a boustrophedon cuneiform script.

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    Reinhard Gassner, Austria (2000)

    1964 – 1968 Trained as reprophotographer; professional education and graphic art training at the studio of his brother, Franz Gassner, MA; Opening of his own design office in Feldkich in...

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    For the harbour building of the City of Bregenz, an effective visual screen for 80 bays of full-height glazing was to be developed that would not impair the transparency of the building envelope. The basis for the concept is provided by band of text in the shape of a rhythmical, graphical system of symbols of an abstract binary basic code; instead of 0/1, black and white are used in the form of a boustrophedon cuneiform script.

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    Reinhard Gassner, Austria (2000)

    1964  –  1968 Trained as reprophotographer; professional education and graphic art training at the studio of his brother, Franz Gassner, MA; Opening of his own design office in Feldkich in 1976,  from 1987 in Schlins/Vorarlberg; from 1996 to 1999 external consultant and design head of the InterMedia course at the University of Applied Sciences, Dornbirn/Vorarlberg; Gassner’s works have received many international awards and have been widely published; in addition to regular commissions, Gassner also works internationally as a curator, lecturer and author. Gassner was appointed as honorary member of the Austrian professional association designaustria in 2023, he has been a member of AGI Alliance Graphique Internationale since 2000. In 2018, his daughter Andrea Gassner took over the studio and moved it to the city center of Feldkirch/Vorarlberg.

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