3 The idea of literally moving the most fundamental of all construction elements — the floor—should be kept in mind when trying to understand how the artist Petra Blaisse, emphasising the inherent imagery of the building, its imagination d'une vie, radicalises the idea of dissolving boundaries and mobilising formerly static elements in her design interventions in the house.
4 The Lemoîne home essentially consists of three houses piled on top of one another. One sinks into the ground; the second is almost immaterial and light, entirely glazed, opening out to wide views over the forest, across the Garonne and onto the old towers of Bordeaux; a third encapsulates the private sleeping quarters and bathrooms with a concrete wall, punctuated with small portholes, merging an atmosphere of immersion and shelter with a sensation of permeability. The wall becomes a rather textile-like coating of the house, a sponge that allows the surrounding world to infiltrate the building gently.
5 In the central, lightest and almost entirely glazed structure, Petra Blaisse adds white, lightweight curtains and a grey, net-like membrane. They do not merely form a filter in front of the glass, but can also be drawn outside to encircle the spacious terrace, where the massive concrete slab overhead balances heavily on a mirror-clad column. The effect is amazing: a room comes into being, its textile walls constantly changing shape in the wind. The walls swell and curve, blowing close to those who sit around. Under its rock-like, concrete ceiling, the house performs an improbably light "dance of the curtain walls" that seems to defy statics: the heaviest component appears to rest on the lightest, melting into thin air the notionally unalterable laws of statics that once tormented the disabled inhabitant.
3 The idea of literally moving the most fundamental of all construction elements — the floor—should be kept in mind when trying to understand how the artist Petra Blaisse, emphasising the inherent imagery of the building, its imagination d'une vie, radicalises the idea of dissolving boundaries and mobilising formerly static elements in her design interventions in the house.4 The Lemoîne home essentially consists of three houses piled on top of one another. One sinks into the ground; the second is almost immaterial and light, entirely glazed, opening out to wide views over the forest, across the Garonne and onto the old towers of Bordeaux; a third encapsulates the private sleeping quarters and bathrooms with a concrete wall, punctuated with small portholes, merging an atmosphere of immersion and shelter with a sensation of permeability. The wall becomes a rather textile-like coating of the house, a sponge that allows the surrounding world to infiltrate the building gently.5 In the central, lightest and almost entirely glazed structure, Petra Blaisse adds white, lightweight curtains and a grey, net-like membrane. They do not merely form a filter in front of the glass, but can also be drawn outside to encircle the spacious terrace, where the massive concrete slab overhead balances heavily on a mirror-clad column. The effect is amazing: a room comes into being, its textile walls constantly changing shape in the wind. The walls swell and curve, blowing close to those who sit around. Under its rock-like, concrete ceiling, the house performs an improbably light "dance of the curtain walls" that seems to defy statics: the heaviest component appears to rest on the lightest, melting into thin air the notionally unalterable laws of statics that once tormented the disabled inhabitant.
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