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Carmen
A story about a woman's relationship with her brutalist house and the characters from an animated tv show she created. (contains AI-generated images)
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Salt?
Carmen's story has been inspired by my thoughts on architecture at the time.
​I've been feeling that there is a tragic element in how we build and live in buildings. Often we build in a way with the illusion of permanence. We build square and monumental forms that attempt to fight of the flow of time for a while. Natural ellements, Decay, and other unintentional influences are seen as negatives corrupting our attempt to create a perfect built environment. At the same time our own bodies age and crumble. To me: the image of a human in their well-curated modernist apartment, appeared like a slowly withering entity desperately constructing a square monolith next to it, in the hopes that if somehow it could keep the monolith from changing, it itself would also stay timeless.
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I started thinking about architectural states where time and decay are embraced and used as something happening besides us. Where we would not need to fight our nature so much. The beautiful potential of a house of constant changes.
One of my friends : Magdalena Salinas, was working on a concept for a Salt House at the time.
Her idea was to create a material context where trough ''rapid'' decay of a house made out of salt. The rooms and structures of the house would grow with you, and once you die also serve as your tombstone.
*Magdalena's images
The Poetry of her work was close to my thoughts on changing architecture.
Maggie was developing her project and could exhibit it at Evoluon in Eindhoven during the Dutch design week. We decided to do a collaboration.
I made her a piece of furniture from salt to add to the exhibition, encapsulating the feelings we should learn to embrace in a house of salt/change.
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Salt Sink :
In the end, I fell in love with the relationship between 3 materials.
Copper - Salt - Water
They react and create beautiful changes wherever they meet!
A whole collection of furniture like this salt sink would be pretty nice! or a salt/water/copper pavilion! a salt sauna?! ... All kinds of opportunities!
