We must accept that from the moment architectural constructions are “completed” they ultimately face their inherent, almost linear, decay toward ruin by all the forces that be. As something built we would eventually have to contend with the notion of Solohouse as an aged structure of say, 100 years, and its subsequent “preservation”, at which point it would cease to be Solohouse.

Solohouse stands for something else, a dwelling in domains of the immaterial, inhabiting the turbulent non-linear world of human ideas and imagination. It is in this turbulence the structure survives and weathers the test of time. I know, because it is this and other conceptual projects of yours (how do you define them?) that remain an influence. There is a Solohouse replicated from indeterminate materials, grown out of the constrains of architectural school (and schools of thought), outward into seemingly unrelated fields of practice.

One could only respect your choice in not resorting to the conventional building industry. However, it is very difficult not to tempt asking you or at least to hope that you will build at some point. It would be so challenging and thought provoking to have the opportunity to physically inhabit your spaces.

Your projects could inspire scenarios for films or stories because of their ambiguity in terms of function (this has already happened actually!). They trigger the imagination for one to think of different actions that could take place in each space. Have you ever considered giving your students a project like the Sololhouse, and ask them to draw how they would inhabit it? In other words to add ‘bodies’ in the spaces?

The Solohouse has a very strong presence but at the same time it is vulnerable. It is vulnerable to time and this makes it even stronger because of this sensibility. Could this vulnerability to time (in terms of allowing the materials to age) be considered another interpretation of the notion of integrity?

Penelope

i mourn its physical loss; mind you, sandrine might still have her version of it.

to be a lighthouseattendant on a remote island.
to make sense without almost anybody ever knowing of it.

utson did.

I am happy that I was able to see it in person in Eindhoven when it was exhibited.
For me personally it is an important piece.