Koolhaas Houselife

koolhaas houselife

Still from “koolhaas houselife” (1998, BekaFilms)

I just stum­bled over the web­site of kool­haas house­life, a movie about OMA’s villa Flo­riac in Boredaux (flickr images):

This is real­ized through the sto­ries and daily chores of Guadalupe Acedo, the home’s care­taker and house­keeper, and the other people who look after the build­ing. Fol­low­ing and inter­act­ing with Guadalupe, blooms an unusual and unpre­dictable look at the spaces and struc­ture of the building.

This approach is in stark con­trast to the usual clin­i­cal clutter-​free and people-​less depic­tion of archi­tec­ture on the one hand. On the other hand it shows us a build­ing not in it’s new (ide­alised) state, but after some years of use, when small adap­ta­tions have been made, some details proved to work well and others fail: the design is con­fronted with human use, the struc­ture became a home. In Kool­haas words (video after the break):
“You see here two sys­tems col­lid­ing: the pla­tonic con­cep­tion of clean­ing and the pla­tonic con­cep­tion of architecture”.

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  1. claudia

    Great­great­great!

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