Christophe Berdaguer and Marie Péjus have converted an old house in France into a remarkable architectural and sculptural visitor center. In the area surrounding the Synagogue de Delme contemporary art centre they gave it a ghostly cloak of polystyrene and paint.
The heart of the project is the transformation of an existing building that was once a prison, then a school and then a funeral home. Keeping this context in mind, the artists used the memory of the place and transformed the building into a ghost house, a veritable architectural phantasmagoria, which the title echoes. Gue(ho)st House borrows Marcel Duchamp’s wordplay: a Guest + A Host = A Ghost. This served as a trigger for the project, which offers an interface between hosts (art centre, commune) and guests (visitors, artists). Berdaguer and Péjus are covering the original house in a white veil that drips onto the surrounding area and creates a living body, a moving form that looks to the past as well as to the future.
All images © Berdaguer&Pejus | Via: dejoost
Dec 29, 2012 · 17:50
Das war mal eine geniale Idee. Schön umgesetzt. Es ist als Haus kaum noch zu erkennen. Ich dachte zuerst es wäre von Colani.
Jan 07, 2013 · 10:09
Das Design erinnert mich an dieses Haus in der Nähe von Cannes:
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/891732
Unkonventionelle Architektur steht bei den Franzosen hoch im Kurs...
Jan 08, 2013 · 11:40
Gefällt mir :)