Artist Diary

Wikkelhouse: A Modular House Made of Cardboard

Amsterdam collective Fiction Factory has developed a modular building system of cardboard components, which can be assembled in just one day to form houses or offices. Named Wikkelhouse, which translates from Dutch as Wrap House, the completed prototype comprises a series of interlocking cardboard segments that each weigh 500 kilograms. Each of these tubular components is 1.2 metres deep, and can be connected and disconnected to extend or reduce the length of the building. They also make it easily transportable.

Dreams Away

Antarctica René Koster

The Project ‘Antarctica’ shows a series of photographs of a voyage to the South Pole. I travelled with a sailing ship which was built in 1911; the same period the last great expeditions left for the unknown continent.

Thoughts of frozen ships trapped in ice-covered seas cross my mind, images of the photographers who joined these expeditions to report of the unexplored. Fascinated by their stories I head for the same circumstances as those of the early twentieth century. A journey of longing, to a time that once was. An heroic saga; filled with hardship and adventure, in an infinite, barren land.

I have included some suggestions on previous posts.

But if I had to choose some essentials I would probably include some of the followings:

101 Things I Learned in Architecture School MATTHEW FREDERICK 

Towards a New Architecture LE CORBUSIER 

A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals SPIRO KOSTOF

The Details of Modern Architecture EDWARD R. FORD 

Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture ROBERT VENTURI

Cropped Gerco de Ruijter

LUNDBERG/BREUER CABIN Lundberg Design

Most of the project has been built using reclaimed materials from various projects over the years. The windows are all steel sash from, at last count, five different remodel projects. The pool is perhaps the most notable example; it used to be a water tank for livestock. At 25-feet diameter and 14-feet deep it provides a wonderful black hole of water, particularly in a full moon.

What’s supposed to happen

What’s happening when you don’t credit

What you’re making them do