House without Quality
House without Quality is located in the new-town-capital Lelystad, in the {artificially} build Provence Flevoland, The Netherlands. It’s located a few steps away from the train-station, in the partly-ravaged-city-center, close to the Orange city theater designed by a famous architecture studio.
This project for a House without Quality is established in two phases.
The first phase is a partly destruction of old-new-town-city-tissue. In this case a concrete parking-deck with building volumes aside of it.
While a few buildings are still in use, it wasn’t possible to destroy the complete structure, so a mediating solution had to be found; to create a workable Ruin.
The second phase was all about finding a cheap-ass-possible solution to cover the still functioning building ruins.
A solution was found in plywood plates. These cheap plates are stacked as blocks to cover the “Open Ruin”, making it all watertight again.
Most wooden plates get wet, and turn gray because of rain, a common issue in the Netherlands. Nevertheless a few wooden plates under the overhanging roof are kept dry. The warm-color, in contrast to the gray wood, both with a beautiful ingrained texture, give an almost Travertine feeling to the whole.
Construction workers were given a free-brief for the detailing of the roof. Actually, no construction drawings were used in the realization of this House without Quality. There were just two parameters; make it watertight and do it as quick as possible. So aesthetic mistakes were not possible, making it all a very cheap and easy endeavor, with the purest outcome possible.
The house has maintained ts function as storage space, for the time being. It has no public entrance anymore though, cause it’s function as a shop disappeared. An ornamental door was created as a placeholder.
A Gargoyle at the corner of the roof spits water on the ground, on days of heavy rain. An improvised detail made by one of the construction guys.
House without Quality is developed by M. in collaboration with H. Builders. [2018–2020] © M. Production [Educating Creativty] All links are integrated in the text. Images cannot be copied without permission. Published 01.2020 Triple-A Society
