living room is the name given to a house in the medieval centre of Gelnhausen, near Frankfurt, designed by two architects, artists and a poet.The house negates the usual distinction between inside and outside, public and private. Roof and wall, interior and exterior – all are covered with the same smooth unifying coat. A rigorous grid of windows punctures the building shell. Passers-by can look inside and see what they would expect to find outside: a landscape – here a large boulder embedded in a sea of gravel. The private spaces are suspended five meters above the landscape in an box, sleeping in its extendable drawer, the sky deck above.The project unites art and architecture, but not in the sense of a self-contained total artwork. The art created here is integral to the house, but also autonomous. It encompasses different concepts of the function of art, and different mediums: painting, photography, poetry, sculpture, light, noise, crafts. The collaboration between artists and architects increases the communicative power of the house. The house speaks to its surroundings – the people and else around it – and awaits response.Between living room and its guest house, meeting room forms an open yard, a public lounge for poetry and artabout usformalhautseifertstoeckmannworksartpoetrystructure/plansarchitecturelandscapepreservationurbanlinksformalhaut.dedimdiary.comseifert-stoeckmann.deDiese Webseite verwendet Cookies. Mit der weiteren Nutzung dieser Website akzeptieren Sie unsere Bestimmungen zum Datenschutz.Okweiterlesen
