There is one more item I think might be interesting for the project. There is a nice sentence in Saramago’s memories Cadernos de Lanzarote: “the home returns to the home”, when referring the day his private library arrived from Lisbon to his new house in Lanzarote. The library is the home. This arises a subject I’m very interested on: which mechanisms are spread out for architecture to be socially accepted? When Toyo Ito started building Sendai Mediatheque, a parallel, regulated process arose: programmed acts, meetings, publications... anticipated in some way the innermost experiences of the building to be. The expectations created around the building site would almost as intense to those within a family awaiting a new baby... Pretty much like creating a layette!
I believe it is possible to build a sort of pre-relationship between the students house, the city and the students that can be efficiently implemented by collaborating with NTNU (fortunately they are in the mood for it), by developing workshops and experimental constructions on the site, a simultaneous open, and transparent process involving citizens and students… that might even end up living on the residence!
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I think that pre-relationship also has to do with the construction of the identity of the building, a enterprise parallel or even previous to the building itself. This identity construction (as in psicology or in politics) is getting more and more important nowadays.
It is interesting here, talking about a library representing a home, also to mention the spaces that hola our favourite objects, what ones treasures in drawers and closets, or on the walls... Maybe we should problematize the storage space. Where to put those things we want to forget about, or that we have to keep in our minds, or what you have to dispose but not to have visible...? I think It was Peter Smithson who said that his favourite pieces of furniture were sideboards. A device to keep everything almost visible, almost in order, and alwas available.
In this "layetting" concept i like the idea of spectation. A new building is rised and with it all kind of possiblities of use and interaction with the community, even in the meantime, during construction it is already there to perform with. This is something to take advantage from, specially this days when so many museums and libraries are built without programm or books, just as empty billboards, and thats a wasted opportunity.
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