Studio Michiels & Vansteenkiste
"Front"
site specific installation at
Raversyde open air museum and part of the Atlantikwall,2014.
a collaboration with Veerle Michiels
Wood
'Front' is a project where two architectural types are processed. On the one hand a bunker, the other a framing reference to a house. In both elements the concept of 'protection' is essential, but their visual and historical character bring other associations to this work.
In combining the two architectures into a new whole, there is a content and visual tension that makes it into complex relationship. The bunker is a introvert volume and the fragile structure of the wooden house has more an open charachter.
Is this a house under construction?
Does the bunker the foundation?
For this wooden skeleton hiding something or
is this construction a materialized desire to become a home?
By a shared fascination with bunkers we decided to cooperate and investigate this fascination.
"Bunkers are a ghostly reminder of destruction and oppression but the idea of home slumbers in this symbol of protection."
"Front"
site specific installation at
Raversyde open air museum and part of the Atlantikwall,2014.
Wood
'Front' is a project where two architectural types are processed. On the one hand a bunker, the other a framing reference to a house. In both elements the concept of 'protection' is essential, but their visual and historical character bring other associations to this work.
In combining the two architectures into a new whole, there is a content and visual tension that makes it into complex relationship. The bunker is a introvert volume and the fragile structure of the wooden house has more an open charachter.
Is this a house under construction?
Does the bunker the foundation?
For this wooden skeleton hiding something or
is this construction a materialized desire to become a home?
By a shared fascination with bunkers we decided to cooperate and investigate this fascination.