Armed fruit along the highway: Banana

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Armed fruit along the highway: Banana
Dutch: Gewapend fruit langs de snelweg
At the Holendrecht junction along the A2
between Utrecht and Amsterdam, an object of
art was installed that is especially visible to
people flying overhead. The terrains between
the main ramps are not treated as remainder
areas, but considered part of the ‘mobility
area’: there are three high earth walls in the
shape of an apple, pear and banana in which
deep grooves have been cut. It is an example
of Land Art. Since the slope of the artwork
is locally steeper than the natural slope of
earth, the earth of which the objects of art are
made up is elevated in layers on the basis of
the cover or envelope method.
The earth walls are densely covered with Salix arenaria. To the south of the
objects of art, watercourses, reed areas and terrestrial vegetation in strips have been added to the terrain, which express the rural location
and the local allotment pattern. They mainly
serve for water-storage purposes.
Ref.:Ecological Engineering and Civil Engineering Works, p. 221.
Heinrich Diederik van Bohemen
PhD Thesis Delft University of Technology – with summary in Dutch
ISBN 90-369-5561-0
DWW-2004-034