WEATHERING, 2024

For the most part, houses are built to be steadfast and immutable. We inhabit them as an unchaging, unreactive shell that shields us from all types of weather. Houses are also built out of materials that have once, in some way or form, been part of a natural enviroment – various types of rock, sand, iron, carbon, copper, wood, clay, lime, aluminium, gypsum... – materials that certainly do react to and are influenced by their surroundings and the natural forces.

This project offers the house a bodypart that is not only allowed to but encouraged to weather and change its colour or shape. At the same time, the weather itself is invited as a collaborator – with rain affecting the layer of iron wire which, with time, will rust through the plaster, or sun and heat deforming and melting the wax mixed among the structure of the spine.
It also poses questions of how we inhabit and really live with a place (or also our own body) as a continous process, constantly subjected to elemental, seasonal or also social influences, and not as fixed and unchanging.