Makan

Water has a tendency to adopt a convex form as you can see to a water drop. It tries to maintain a spherical form, but because of the gravitation it does not succeed. In a flat surface the convex form is reduced to a circle. For this reason the river winds its way through the landscape. The groynes in the river reduce the different movements to one main stream. Near the groynes the whirling movement of the water is the most visible, because they dam the flow. My intention was to make this whirling of the water stream visible in a vertical moving construction.

The Hydrometer will be placed in such a way that it can optimally use the differences in the force of the current without being a danger for the ships in the mainstream. It will be placed 3 to 4 meters from the extremity of the groyne, with the construction turned to the flow side. The length of the outstretched construction is 25 x 12m, in a crouched position it measures 7 x 28m.

Of the 107 submissions the Hydrometer belonged to the last 8 nominated. In its report the jury comments: This is a plan for objects which as a type of crown pen write patterns on the water surface. The project refers in an obvious manner to the dynamics of the river. There is tension in the installation and its aspect changes under the influence of water (current and level) and wind.

The Hydrometer will be made of steel plates provided with a reflecting coating. At night the land-mark will light up. At every passing by of a ship the meter folds out owing to the suction of the water.