AJDVIV architecten Jan de Vylder Inge Vinck . photos: © Filip Dujardin
When a furniture company placed an order to develop a cupboard with an acoustic performance, the answer was a piece of furniture that is no more and no less an unexpected deconstruction of a typical plasterboard wall between offices, with its metal structure and insulation.
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The commission was vague regarding the detailed needs of the cupboard.
At the time we rediscovered the post-modern work of the Belgian designer Pieter De Bruyne. In no time the very intriguing cupboard called DAY&NIGHT became subject of an homage Homage to the post modern thinking.
The new piece became an experiment in making, starting from a catalogue of all kinds of pieces available for walls, ceilings and floors, giving those pieces a totally different use. An unexpected outcome. The furniture company refused the piece.
The piece, together with the original DAY&NIGHT and the model of the house GANZENDRIES, became a triptych. At a certain point during construction on the building site of the GANZENDRIES house, colour became a topic. Working on ODE PDB, not only the colour, but also the inexplicable addition of extra crossing pieces of wood to the new structure, happened easily.
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supports
The question was as the question always is. To make a large area out of a house with many small rooms. In other words to remove the internal walls. Any question from a client should always be answered. That is simply but sincerely the order from an architect. At the same time, the architect must not just answer the order but a twist must be given so that the result, more than an answer could suspect, can be found.
The existing “gaps” between the different rooms were ‘closed’ by a new support structure out of wood. A structure that points to temporary supports that are often found in openings in buildings with the necessary stabilisers or performances of works.
The existing ‘walls’ could then be taken away. After all, the new structures absorbed the weight of the building. The walls were removed just as gravitation would be able to. No replacement beams were put in place. A rudimentary form of arch effect played its part. Stones where they were no longer needed.
Some walls remained standing. Where space allowed this. Wood remained wood. But the colour red and blue was inevitable. Another project came to mind for this. Simultaneity became part. The homage to Peter De Bruyne in the re-enactment of his cabinet called “day and night” brought blue and red suddenly forward.
the detail
And then comes the detail unexpectedly. Its stones not completely fallen as expected. One still needs to be connected to the other. And that may perhaps be unexpectedly as follows. A disc and a few sticks. Hardwood and if it was readily available.
the same photo
Same picture three times, and then again from two frontally opposing viewpoints. The third double page splits the two positions but brings life together with mere picture over space.
the composite photo
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