| Study at: | St. Lucas Gent, Belgium |
| Year: | 1993 |
| Project: | Study project for scenic living for musicians in and around a bunker in Waldam-Calais |
| Personification of the 3 musicians: They play dark-alternative-experimental music. They don't feel at ease with the existing society, the way of life, the politics, the all-outplanned life they are supposed to live according to all the rules, beliefs and ethics of the social society. They think they can get more out of life when living more freely, chaotic, not bounded by rules and ethics. That is why they want to live in such a chaotic, desolate, rough and thorny landscape. |  |
Their house has to be seen also in this context and ideas. It has to be similar to a camp that small children often build, as a place of their own, far away and desolate, no contact with social environment, away from the world with all its rules, norms and ethics. A place without any intruder, a place where they are not bound, where they can be free, where they can get more out of life, where they, without obstacles, can be themselves. |  |
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house of the 3 musicians, to be seen as a camp, has all the
characteristics of such a camp. Like children use a tree or an other
existing object to graft their camp upon, so is, here, the bunker used
as an object, a piece of furniture upon which the entire structure of
the residency is grafted. The main elements of the structure are emphasized so one can feel its symbolic meaning and function: the anchor, with the entire structure is grafted on the bunker, the floor-joists, the beams, the arched-roof-joists and all the tube-columns that make up the outer-spatial-skin-framework. There are no ordinary furniture-objects. All is integrated in the structure, the dividing panels and floors. There are lots of open-free spaces. |
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