For Antti LOVAG,
nature must not be lived only by the look behind an opening.
And if the lovagian habitation is built for the use of its inhabitants,
it is singularly linked to the site.
It is this form of union which makes the lovagian habitat.
| Mineral
osmosis |
Participation of a rocky ground to the construction of partitions
or grounds :
the habitation integrates the site.
Ex. a partition rests on a flagstone or a rock.
Ex. an inside paving
goes out to correct the rocky failures of the terrace.
the
site integrates the habitation.
Ex. erratic rocks stand in the builded.
Ex. an unflat stone extends
inside.
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partition stands on an overflowing rock which
separates the natural neighbouring in two small gardens. |
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The
clearing between prominent rocks has permitted an overflowing
from the swimming pool in a basin which reflects
the habitation, feet in the water.
Note the humour of these feet lightened by a finition
in stainless tube
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| Cohabitation
between mineral, vegetal and built. |
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The
partition steps over the rock
and rests on it |
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| Vegetal
osmosis |
"Hanging gardens" gush from the "roof" hollows.
Vegetal sheets wrap up certain hulls, kept away, to facilitate
the fresh air circulation during summer; the foliage is either
deciduous or persistent.
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| Hanging
gardens : vegetal sheets dress the built
and link the ground to the "roof". |
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| Hanging
gardens : blossoming periodically modify
the image of certain accesses. |
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| Water,
image and sound |
Water is inside and outside.
Water meanders between stones, similar to the man steps. Water
which rustles in "cascatelles" in the patio or the hothouse
and water which resounds outside, from troughs to basins, "silencing"
inopportune noises. The rain which drums on the skydome.
The swimming pool which freshens the summer air...
There are so many waters to invite to live better
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Nature cohabits with the user.
In the access corridor to the private spaces, openings
(inside oculus with no glass) offer elevated views
and low-angle musics: plants, rocks, rivulet. |
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overflowing swimming-pool water runs out, rustling, in
troughs down to the lower basin : the flow adjustment
modulates the sound volume and gums out, at certain time,
the environment noises. |
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| Light
and view |
The pleasures of the view on the open sea are well-known but oculus
and skydome innovate.
To the near and intimate (a quiet tree) side-glance, the oculus
knows how to add field-glasses (a far wavelet, lost in the immenseness,
suddenly living nearly to be touched) : a magic power to see
differently.
And if the skydome lights the inside "as outside", it
knows how to make more for curious people.. From the first lights
to the last, light runs on the hull in the opposite direction.
Clouds parade and stars cover it; drops burst on it and splash
in the whole bedroom. Unstable snow diffuses, for some time, a
pearlescent light.
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| Man
and habitat |
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The man, it's five senses and an "affect", feelings,
emotions...
To the already mentionned lovagian attentions, must be added less
apparent numerous details : from a concealed hole to evacuate
washing waters from the ground to the one used for the aspiration
of dust, from the electric light integrated in the well for the
end of the day to the well/aquarium of which the water, disturbed
by a fish gives life to reflects on the inferior table, from the
quoin softener to the spherical, swiveling or rolling chimney,
and so on...
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The man, it's also a being who moves in space and time as nature
moves with hours, seasons, years...
The lovagian habitation sometimes has "corks" in possible
preludes for recesses or carbuncles, furnished spaces, corridors
... to come.
A shop of used beams, chimneys, tiles, furniture ... will soon
sell equiped modules. A hire-purchase shop proposes costumes,
cars, mobile homes as so many skins to leave in it will soon supply
new or used modules.
Habitation widens for the time of a feast, of the education of
a child, of the accomodation of an "ancestor" or friends
... then comes back to the initial intimate serenity.
To
summarize if, to the eyes of a rushing man, the lovagian habitat
is only observed for its roundnesses and its mobilities, the more
curious passer-by will find numerous attentions for the user and
for the site.
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