As part of the renewal and expansion of the Vienna Municipal and Provincial Library a new underground storage area was created for the poster archives in court no. 6 of the City Hall. The upper part of the building is rounded off with a work by concept artist couple Lois & Franziska Weinberger. From a bird’s-eye perspective, the formal structure of his work corresponds to the course of the ramified corridors bored by the engraver beetle (Ips typographus).
Following the building measures undertaken in 2004, the biomorphous corridor structures dug into the concrete will be planted with succulent plants of the wall pepper type (from the Sedum family) in spring of 2005. The rockery plants that spread like a carpet will eventually produce a contrast between concrete gray and green vegetation, so that the magnified relief-like system of paths taken from nature becomes increasingly visible.
The corridors alluded to can be continued in the imagination and read as an organic network which extends into the urban setting. As a vegetation-covered drawing the corridor system signals the possibility of a living, permeable exchange between cultural and biological developments.

Text extract: Jörg Auzinger in: Public Art Vienna. Departures - Works - Interventions. 2004 - 2007.