A house between the accidental and the intentional
a self-initiated project
Concept:
The proposed project is created by overlapping discarded and used/ unused structural elements: worn steel profiles, massive wooden beams, cracked concrete walls and rusted virendel supports. Building material from unused, abandoned and dilapidated buildings can become a new ready-made element when designing new architectural structures. These elements differ greatly in their size and purpose, and they become input data for designing new architecture.
Input data
- steel profiles, filled - 5 cm x 5 cm
- circular steel profiles, filled, radius 2.5 cm
- H - steel profiles of load-bearing structures - height 25 cm
- I - steel profiles of load-bearing structures - height 25 cm
- C - steel profiles of load-bearing structures - height 25 cm
- T - steel profiles of load-bearing structures - height 25 cm
- fragments of reinforced concrete walls one floor high: height 3000 cm
- virendell girders (of bridge structures and architectural structures) of various dimensions: from 3000 cm in height to 6000 cm in height
- massive wooden laminated beams, filled - 20cm x 20cm
- wooden decking of variable dimensions
Framework for analyzing the data:
By overlapping the mentioned elements, between accidental and the intentional, each floor/layer will be placed on top of each other. Here is a suggested setup principle. With the constant changes in its scale and dimensions- from small and fragmented elements to large and inhabitable, new aspects of use are yet to be determined. The house can serve as a shelter with a variable function, but basically it presents a design principle, not a solution. It is based on today's aspirations for sustainability, recycling, social values, and ultimately correct and bold architectural intentions.
The results of the analysis:
The house is a structure and a tower.
The state of decay it is in has created a specific cave-like interior
It is equally accessible to humans and animals. The power of his composition suggests the strong force of nature and the inevitable presence of man.
*The name Second Construction is taken from the music composition by John Cage composed in 1939. - 40.