House Dilation

Images and text via Philippe Rahm . Traducción al español por Hidden Architecture The proposal is to dilate a house on the site, to disperse its rooms and its layout over the whole of the site, selecting particular places for their particular climates. The house then, is no longer a compact and closed object; it bursts, disseminating its layout and its spaces in different locations over the site, multiplying the views, the situations, the sites, the atmospheres and the climates. La propuesta es dilatar una casa en el lugar, dispersar sus habitaciones y su distribución, seleccionando lugares particulares en función de sus climas particulares. La casa entonces ya no es un objeto compacto y cerrado; implosiona, diseminando su trazado y sus espacios en diferentes lugares del solar, multiplicando las vistas, situaciones, lugares, atmósferas y climas. It is told that the French writer George Perec considered the idea to have his living room in the Latin Quarter, his study close to the Champs-Élysées, his bedroom in Montmartre and his bathroom on the Île de la Cité. The idea is that that an apartment can be disseminated throughout the city of Paris, finding the rooms in various places, according to hours of the day, to the environment of the district, to the desires of the moment and the season. The thresholds between two rooms, normally a doorway of a few centimeters thick, dilates then over hundreds of meters. The apartment does not measure any more 50 square meters, but one or two square kilometers. And the inhabitant lives in this dilated space on a city scale, on a landscape scale. These are often the same reasons which determine our choice of the side of the street; sitting at a table outside a café according to the hour of the day. During the winter in Paris, we will choose the café located on the Western side of the street in the morning and in the afternoon the one on the East side, in order to benefit fully from the sun.