A balance
between
collective
and
individuality
Layers of time
Layers of space
Layers of perception
Layers of memory
Modular system.
Generic skeleton.
Individual interpretation.
Collective appearance.
Never static. Never finished.
A D D
B D C
B C A
A D A
A C C
B D D
One structure.
Many infills.
One rule.
Many exceptions.
House and garden.
A balancing act between the permanent and the transient.
Waiting for the transient to take over.
Two trees in the park
are embraced.
Outside becomes inside.
Inside becomes outside.
Acer palmatum, ant chair, bambuseae, betula, daw chair, hay new order, hydrangea, jasminum, joyn table, lavendula, LC2, MvS.03, portal, pteropsida, rosa, slow chair, tray table, tulipa, vinca mayor, vinca minor.
Revealing space.
On the sand.
In the sea.
A new extension encloses the existing building, defines the border, gives it a facade. Old and new, in between they meet.
To uncover.
To remove.
To add.
To expose the modernity of the past.
To Eliminate.
To Continue.
To Obscure.
To Reconfigure.
To Repurpose.
To Densify.
To Copy.
To Overlay.
To Reimagine.
To Restart.
To Abstain.
To work with what exists.
To work with who are there.
To work with the resources that are left.
Between mass and void.
Between unity and diversity.
Between elements and ensemble.
Defining and composing by stacking and layering.
Dividing the program of the building in smaller clusters.
Bringing the building to the human scale.
Reflecting.
Reflecting heat.
Reflecting cold.
Protecting.
Built as identical twins. Separated from each other during their youth. Living their own lives as if they had no relation to each other. Reunited again after three centuries. Looking for differences, looking for similarities.
Embracing a double faced orientation like Janus, the roman god of beginnings and endings, gates, transition and time.
When ‘Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder’, then the beholder becomes more important than the object of observation. If you want to create beauty, you should focus on the observer and not on the object...
