Idea/statement

Build up your England project investigates characteristics of english housing architecture.

What catches foreigner's eye when entering the country for the first time is its architecture uniformity. In comparison to other countries, especially eastern european, english architecture over the year managed to preserve a distinguishable style and visual order in public space. This phenomenon is expressed by a set of characteristic common for the most of housing including not only shapes of the houses, dimensions (height, width, number of floors), sizes, materials used (brick, stone, wood etc.) but also abstract values such as the rhythm they create.
Starting point of the project was a check list of elements and objects which distinct english urban space. On the one hand official buildings like charity shops, churches, inns and fish&chips bars were taken into consideration. On the other elements surrounding houses: doors windows, fences and hedges. To relate the project to the question of public and privates space number of examined aspects was reduced to windows and doors of private houses.
Windows and doors create boundaries between the public and private space. They also illustrate how the general homogeneity turns into very personal section when altered by an individual. Moreover windows owning to their semi-transparency can either let the observer enter the house or create a barrier reflecting the indistinguishable environment surrounding every house.

The project consist of a book with collection of dors and windows reflecting the space houses are surrounded in exactly the same scale. With windows always on the odd and doors on the even pages the pages are divided into 4 stripes turning themselves independently. It creates an opportunity to form entirely new examples of those elements randomly. The book is accompanied with wooden blocks wrapped around with alike pictures. Along with the book they give a chance of making endless variations of architectural elements, not necessarily following the real structure of them. This lets creating abstract objects, expanded vertical, not limited with the two dimensional book and number of stripes within it, either placed on the book or next to it.


Keywords:
- module
- colour
- uniformity
- multiplication
- architecture
- reflection
- rythm