With our concept, Leipzig 2012 would have set its first world record already before the opening ceremony: In a joint effort, architects of all five continents design a single structure of 8194 m long, to house the best athletes of the world. In five Olympic loops the building winds through the Arcadian wetlands of the Lindenau harbour. Landscape merges with building: The long worm huddles against the topography; all of a sudden it raises and turns into a bridge. At first it carefully meanders through the waterside woodland, then its movements turn bold and angular. The cross-section reacts to the surrounding conditions, mutating to accommodate various floor plans, which can be re-used, after the games, as row houses, apartments, offices or hotels. Implantations, alienations and manipulations of the landscape within the five loops recall images of faraway worlds.

In each loop, the landscape recalls another one of the five world regions

The trajectory of the long structure winding through the Lindenau harbour