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DAVID CARR-SMITH - IMPROVISATION / DESIGN / ART / KITSCH / CHANCE
"HOME"
DEFINING
MY LOCATION / MY NEEDS / MYSELF VIA PERSONAL CHOICES
...
in process
INDEX
AN
ARTIST'S PUBLIC-SITE INSTALLATION WORKS
IMPROVISED
ARCHITECTURE IN AMSTERDAM INDUSTRIAL SQUATS & COLLECTIVES
IMPROVISED
OPEN-SITE: ("THE NOMADIC COMMUNITY GARDEN")
IMPROVISED
VILLAGES: (WANDSWORTH & KEW BRIDGE 'ECO VILLAGES')
ALLOTMENT
IMPROVISATIONS - PUBLIC, LEGAL, SOCIALLY INDORSED
TEMPORARY-ARCHITECTURE:
("FRANK'S CAFE" & "SOUTHWARK LIDO")
VERNACULAR
- PRAGMATISM & STYLE: (BERDUN VILLAGE BARNS & HOUSES)
"HOME"
- MY LOCATION VIA MASS-PRODUCTS & TASTE - LIV-RM
"HOME"
- MY LOCATION VIA MASS-PRODUCTS & TASTE - HOUSE
"HOME"
- MY LOCATION VIA PERSONAL CHOICES
ART
- GOTHIC INTO RENAISSANCE INTO EARLY 20thC
ART
- 20thC COLLAGE INTO MASS-MEDIA
GRAFFITI
INTO STREET-ART
KITSCH
CHANCE & DESIGN
"HOME"
- LOCATION VIA PERSONAL CHOICES ...
in process
Eg 1: VIVIAN
HOME - N-SPAIN
> Eg
2: DURAG NIWAS HOUSE - N-INDIA >
> Eg
3: PARMENTER HOME
- S-LONDON >
This
section of "HOME": 'LOCATION VIA PERSONAL CHOICES', offers examples
which are neither so completely individually originated as the factory-squat and
land-squat homes shown in this website's first two sections [ref:
'IMPROVISED-ARCH...' and 'IMPROVISED VILLAGES ...'], or so completely influenced
by mass-culture domestic expectations, concepts and aesthetics as the examples
in 'HOME
- LOCATION VIA MASS-PRODUCTS'.
Shown in this section is an intermediate manner of forming ones home, these
people utilise existing buildings and loosely conform to local physical/cultural 'vernacular' norms,
however (at least at the time of recording them) the way these homes are used,
their internal planning and disposition of functions, is principally individually driven - only
peripherally biased by conformity to
mass-taste/product exemplars.
EG 1:
VIVIAN HOME - ARRES, N-SPAIN
Arres, (Berdun, Aragon Valley), Huesca, Spain
...
in process
This
first example: 'VIVIAN HOME' is a vernacular barn re-moulded into a home: its
exterior minimally functionally modified, its interior rebuilt
to accommodate the owner's individual needs and style of domestic living.
The
external body of this house pre-existed as two adjacent stone
barns. Vivian almost
completely reformed the interior of these simple stone
shells. She designed the disposition of the new home's volumes, retaining and reusing
certain large-scale constructional features of the original buildings. She
elicited the cooperation and advice of a builder concerning finishing techniques: surfacing,
floor-laying, and service installations.
1: Exterior:
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VIVIAN HOUSE: EXTERIOR (LEVEL 1) - NORTH FACADE &
'VILLAGE SQUARE'
(pic 09-06-2013
/ to SW)
View from the top floor of the Arres 'Community Centre'. Behind
us, this small 'village square' is the destination of village entry roads
from north and east. The track from its left (south-east) corner descends to
a farm; to the right the hill rises to the summit of the village.
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VIVIAN HOUSE: EXTERIOR (LEVEL 1) - NORTH FACADE WITH
THE HOUSE'S 'STREET DOOR' ENTRY FROM THE VILLAGE SQUARE
(pic 12-06-2013
/ to SW)
Due
to the fact that its site slopes steeply to the south the house's
street-front door enters
at its upper 'level 1' onto
a small hallway/landing. At its left end this opens into the smaller of the
house's two living rooms; on its right a stair descends to the larger living
room which fills the whole space of 'level 0' below. From this space one may
enter a bedroom/bathroom that fills a small single level building extending
from the main building's south-west corner.
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VIVIAN HOUSE: EXTERIOR (LEVEL 1) - NORTH FACADE ENTRY &
GARDEN
(pic 12-06-2013 / to WWN)
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: EXTERIOR - FARM-TRACK FROM SOUTH-EAST CORNER OF THE VILLAGE SQUARE
(pic 22-04-2009
/ to SE)
The
wall on the right edges Vivian's patio whose exit ramp joins this track
just beyond it.
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: EXTERIOR - EAST & SOUTH (FIELD) FACADES (FROM FARM-TRACK)
(pic 06-06-2013 / to NW) From
further down the farm-track we can look back towards the village square
behind the east and south sides of Vivian's house.
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: EXTERIOR (LEVELS 0 + 1) - SOUTH (FIELD) FACADE
(pic
24-04-2009
/ to NE)
Viewed
from the field that slopes steeply from its southern face the house shows
its two joined buildings, the large two-level east part and the single-level
bedroom (with its landscape-viewing open door ).
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: EXTERIOR (LEVEL 0) - SOUTH (FIELD) FACADE PATH TO EAST PATIO
(paste-up x2 pics 24-04-2009
/ to EES)
A
walk from the tiny terrace of the bedroom's external door, along a slightly
worn track through the field's grass, towards the southeast corner of the
house and its east patio.
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: EXTERIOR - VIEW FROM SOUTH FIELD
(pic 23-04-2009
/ to EES)
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VIVIAN HOUSE: EXTERIOR
(LEVELS 0 + 1) EAST END FACADE & PATIO
(paste-up x2 pics 22-04-2009
/ to WWN)
The
east face of the main building, with the
upper living-room's
small
balcony
and a patio door into the lower living-room and kitchen. The patio is viewed
here from a ramp that descends to it from the farm-track. From the big lower
living room this can be a quicker route to the
village-square than threading the internal stair to the street-door of the
house.
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: EXTERIOR (LEVEL 0 ~ 1) EAST END - PATIO & RAMP TO TRACK
(pic 22-04-2009
/ to EES)
With
ones back to the house, and in the shadow of the high wall that edges the
farm-track, one looks out across a huge view, separated by
a ruined wall
from the patio's rough cement ramp up to the farm-track that ascends to the
village-square.
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: EXTERIOR (LEVEL 0 ~ 1) EAST END - PATIO & RAMP TO TRACK
(pic 06-06-2013
/ to EES)
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: EXTERIOR (LEVEL 0 ~ 1) EAST END - PATIO & RAMP TO TRACK (NIGHT)
(pic 07-06-2013
/ to EES)
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: EXTERIOR (LEVEL 0) - PATIO
(pic 06-06-2013
/ to SSW)
The
incongruity of banal domestic clutter facing a huge and magnificent view.
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: EXTERIOR (LEVEL 0 ~ 1) - THE PATIO'S NORTH-SIDE WALL
(pic 22-04-2009 / to EES) This
massive dry-stone wall encloses the patio and buttresses the farm-track above.
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: EXTERIOR (LEVEL 0) - PATIO DOOR INTO LIVING ROOM
(pic 06-06-2013
/ to WWN)
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2: Interior - Level 0: Living-room and
kitchen - (entry from patio & L1 stair)
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: INTERIOR (LEVEL 0) - LIVING ROOM (E END)
(pic 22-04-2009
/ to EEN)
The
big living-room at the patio (and kitchen) end.
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VIVIAN HOUSE: INTERIOR (LEVEL 0) - LIVING ROOM
(E END)
(pic 21-04-2009
/ to EES)
The living-room's east-door evening-view of the exterior patio and interior
reflections.
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: INTERIOR (LEVEL 0) - LIVING ROOM (E END + KITCHEN)
(pic 22-04-2009
/ to NNW)
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: INTERIOR (LEVEL 0) - LIVING ROOM
(E END)
(paste-up x2 pics 22-04-2009
/ to E)
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: INTERIOR (LEVEL 0) - LIVING ROOM (E END)
(pic 22-04-2009
/ to NNE)
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: INTERIOR (LEVEL 0) - LIVING ROOM
(E END + KITCHEN)
(paste-up x2 pics 04-06-2013
/ to WWS)
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: INTERIOR (LEVEL 0) - LIVING ROOM
(E END)
(pic 12-06-2013)
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: INTERIOR (LEVEL 0) - LIVING ROOM
(E END + KITCHEN)
(pic 07-06-2013
/ to WWS)
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: INTERIOR (LEVEL 0) - LIVING ROOM
(E END) - KITCHEN)
(paste-up x2 pics 07-06-2013
/ to W)
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VIVIAN HOUSE: INTERIOR (LEVEL 0) - LIVING ROOM
(E END) -
KITCHEN
(pic 07-06-2013
/ to SE)
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VIVIAN HOUSE: INTERIOR (LEVEL 0) - LIVING ROOM
(E END) -
KITCHEN SINK
(pic 10-06-2013
/ to SW)
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: INTERIOR (LEVEL 0) - LIVING ROOM
(E END) -
KITCHEN WINDOW (VIEW S)
(pic 23-04-2009 / to SSW)
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: INTERIOR (LEVEL 0) - LIVING ROOM (W
END + KITCHEN)
(paste-up x2 pics 24-04-2009
/ to SE)
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VIVIAN HOUSE: INTERIOR (LEVEL 0) - LIVING ROOM
- KITCHEN WINDOW
(W END)
(pic 23-04-2009
/ to SSW)
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VIVIAN HOUSE: INTERIOR (LEVEL 0) - LIVING ROOM
(W END + KITCHEN) - NIGHT
(pic 23-04-2009
/ to SSW)
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: INTERIOR (LEVEL 0) - LIVING ROOM (W END))
(pic 07-06-2013 / to E)
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VIVIAN HOUSE: INTERIOR (LEVEL 0) - LIVING ROOM
(W END)
(pic 22-04-2009
/ to WWS)
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VIVIAN HOUSE: INTERIOR (LEVEL 0) - LIVING ROOM
(W END) - NIGHT
(pic 21-04-2009
/ to NW)
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: INTERIOR (LEVEL 0) - LIVING ROOM (W END)
(paste-up x2 pics 22-04-2009
/ to E)
From
the center of the west wall rises a curtained stair to the level-1 road
entry, a landing bathroom/wc, and the upper living-room/bedroom [see section
'Level 1' below]. (Behind us and to the left, is a door into a lower
extension that serves as a bedroom and shower/wc [see last pic in this
section].
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: INTERIOR (LEVEL 0) - LIVING ROOM (W END)
(paste-up x2 pics 22-04-2009
/ to NNE)
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: INTERIOR (LEVEL 0) - LIVING ROOM (W END)
(pic 24-04-2009 / to NNW)
At
the centre of the west wall a stair mounts to level 1 landing/hallway ...
the building's street-door; a landing bathroom/wc; an entry into the
east-front living room. Vivian is entering the curtained stair.
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: INTERIOR (LEVEL 0) - LIVING ROOM (W END)
(pic 22-04-2009
/ to SW)
In the SW corner is the entry to an extension building that serves as a
bedroom and shower/wc.
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: INTERIOR (LEVEL 0) - LIVING ROOM (W END) - ENTRY TO BEDROOM
(pic 22-04-2009 /
to WWN)
The steps down and door into a lower
extension
building that serves as a bedroom and
shower/wc [see next section and section 1: 'Exterior' pic 6].
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3: Interior - Level 0-2: Bedroom (extension building) -
(entry from Living-room & S field)
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: INTERIOR (LEVEL 0-2) - BEDROOM (E END) - ENTRY FROM LIVING ROOM
(pic 22-04-2009 /
to EES)
We look back from the bedroom
into the living room.
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: INTERIOR (LEVEL 0-2) - BEDROOM - CEILING
(pic 24-04-2009 /
to SSW)
A single slab of sloping roof.
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: INTERIOR (LEVEL 0-2) - BEDROOM (SE CORNER) WITH ENTRY FROM LIVING ROOM
- NIGHT
(pic 21-04-2009 /
to SE)
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: INTERIOR (LEVEL 0-2) - BEDROOM (W END) WITH BED PLATFORM & BATHROOM
DOOR
(pic 24-04-2009 /
to WWN)
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: INTERIOR (LEVEL 0-2) - BEDROOM (W END) - BED PLATFORM
(pic 24-04-2009 /
to WWN)
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: INTERIOR (LEVEL 0-2) - BEDROOM FROM BED PLATFORM (WITH DOOR TO SOUTH
FIELD)
(paste-up
x3 pics 24-04-2009 /
to SE)
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: INTERIOR (LEVEL 0-2) - BEDROOM - DOOR TO SOUTH FIELD
(pic 05-06-2013 /
to SW)
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: SOUTH FIELD DETAIL
(pic 06-06-2013)
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: INTERIOR (LEVEL 0-2) - BEDROOM (W END) WITH BATHROOM DOOR
(pic 05-06-2013 /
to NNW)
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: INTERIOR (LEVEL 0-2) - BEDROOM (W END) BATHROOM
(pic 09-06-2013 /
to NNW)
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4: Interior
- Level 1: Hallway and stair between floors L0 and L1
.
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: INTERIOR (LEVEL 1) - STAIR UP FROM L0 PLUS L1 LANDING & BATHROOM
(paste-up x3 pics [NB: very distorted image] 24-04-2009
/ to E)
I am standing on the small half-landing at the turn of the stair (which has
emerged via a curtained exit from the big living-room below). One mounts
three more steps; crosses a landing/entry-hall (past
a 'free-standing-cuboid' bathroom on our right
and the
house's street-door
on our left) to
a curtained entry its far end,
into the upper (second) living-room
[ref next section].
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: INTERIOR (LEVEL 1) - STAIR FROM L0, L1 LANDING & BATHROOM
(pic 24-04-2009
/ to SE)
Inside
the landing/entry-hall bathroom
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: INTERIOR (LEVEL 1) - L1 LANDING WITH N-FRONT STREET-DOOR & ENTRY TO
THE UPPER LIVING-ROOM
(paste-up x2 pics 24-04-2009
/ to NNE)
The 'front-door' of the house -
the home's street-level entry, and the curtained entry into the upper
living-room, made across the width of the house's east-end.
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5: Interior - Level 1: Living-room and
bedroom - (entry from L1 hallway)
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: INTERIOR (LEVEL 1) - LIVING ROOM (+ BED-SPACE)
(pic 24-04-2009
/ to NNW)
The
N end of the living-room - in its NW corner is its curtained entry from the
hallway.
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: INTERIOR
(LEVEL 1)
- LIVING ROOM (+ BED-SPACE)
(paste-up x2 pics 24-04-2009
/ to NE)
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: INTERIOR
(LEVEL 1)
- LIVING ROOM (+ BED-SPACE)
(paste-up x2 pics 24-04-2009
/ to S)
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: INTERIOR
(LEVEL 1)
- LIVING ROOM (+ BED-SPACE)
(paste-up x2 pics 24-04-2009
/ to W)
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: INTERIOR (LEVEL 1) - LIVING ROOM - ENTRY TO BED-SPACE
(pic 24-04-2009
/ to WWN)
A
small bed-space - located behind the hallway bathroom - is entered through a
narrow (curtained) gap in the living-room wall.
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VIVIAN
HOUSE: INTERIOR
(LEVEL 1)
- LIVING ROOM - BED-SPACE
(paste-up x2 pics 24-04-2009
/ to WWN)
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^ Top
Eg
1: VIVIAN
BOUCHER
HOME - N-SPAIN
> Eg
2: DURAG NIWAS HOUSE - N-INDIA >
> Eg
3: PARMENTER HOME
- S-LONDON >
> Next Section >
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INDEX
AN
ARTIST'S PUBLIC-SITE INSTALLATION WORKS
I
MPROVISED
ARCHITECTURE IN AMSTERDAM INDUSTRIAL SQUATS & COLLECTIVES
IMPROVISED
OPEN-SITE: ("THE NOMADIC COMMUNITY GARDEN")
IMPROVISED
VILLAGES: (WANDSWORTH & KEW BRIDGE 'ECO VILLAGES')
ALLOTMENT
IMPROVISATIONS - PUBLIC, LEGAL, SOCIALLY INDORSED
TEMPORARY-ARCHITECTURE:
("FRANK'S CAFE" & "SOUTHWARK LIDO")
VERNACULAR
- PRAGMATISM & STYLE: (BERDUN VILLAGE BARNS & HOUSES)
"HOME"
- MY LOCATION VIA MASS-PRODUCTS & TASTE - LIV-RM
"HOME"
- MY LOCATION VIA MASS-PRODUCTS & TASTE - HOUSE
"HOME"
- MY LOCATION VIA PERSONAL CHOICES
ART
- GOTHIC INTO RENAISSANCE INTO EARLY 20thC
ART
- 20thC COLLAGE INTO MASS-MEDIA
GRAFFITI
INTO STREET-ART
KITSCH
CHANCE & DESIGN