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CONTENTS   4 SITES  

SILO

  TETTERODE   DE LOODS   EDELWEIS   APPENDICES   NOTES   SUB-SITES

BOOK:  DAVID CARR-SMITH  -  IMPROVISED ARCHITECTURE IN AMSTERDAM INDUSTRIAL SQUATS & COLLECTIVES

NOTES

 

   NOTE 1 - WINDOWS AS OPENINGS & PICTURES - EG: LE CORBUSIER
> NOTE 2 - THE DRAMA OF NECESSITY - EG: LE CORBUSIER >

> NOTE 3 - SILO EVENTS PUBLICITY NOTICES >  
> NOTE 4 - THE SILO KROEG'S FIRST STOVE >  
> NOTE 5 - TETTERODE HISTORY > 

> NOTE 6 - DE LOODS WESTERDOK: JOLINE'S HOUSE >
  
> NOTE 7 - TETTERODE KINDERGARTEN >
> NOTE 8 - TETTERODE'S PAINTED LIFT >

 

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NOTE 1
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Re: Foot-Note 1: SILO - ATTIC - p3 ]

WINDOWS AS OPENINGS AND 'PICTURES'

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EG:  LE CORBUSIER - VILLA SAVOYE, POISSEY-SUR-SEINE - 1929-31

'PICTURE-WINDOW' OPENING IN THE NW WIND-BREAK WALL OF THE L2 SUN TERRACE

This building presents an intentionally mediated 'art' instance of a window phenomenon common in the Grain Silo, whose industrial or improvised windows are often - at least in relation to expectations primed by our culture's mass-housing conventions - strangely placed or convey an unusually strong awareness of the events of their inception; and which thus reveal - perhaps mearly as a consequence of the degree of attention we consequently give them - what is perhaps mearly an inherent property of windows. 

LE CORBUSIER - VILLA SAVOYE: NW FRONT

(pic c1975 / to SE)

Note the 'picture-window' opening in the wind-break wall of the L2 sun-terrace.

 

LE CORBUSIER - VILLA SAVOYE: INTERIOR-EXTERIOR - L2 TERRACE 

(pic 19? / to NW)

Note the 'picture-window' in the wind-break wall of the L2 sun-terrace. This opening in its screen wall is an external-physical analogue of a 'Cubist'/'Surrealist' papier-collé's visual/mental paradox: a presentation of a 'real' space on the plane of its supporting surface.

 

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^ NOTE 1 - WINDOWS AS OPENINGS & PICTURES - EG: LE CORBUSIER
> NOTE 2 - THE DRAMA OF NECESSITY - EG: LE CORBUSIER >
> NOTE 3 - SILO EVENTS PUBLICITY NOTICES >  
> NOTE 4 - THE SILO KROEG'S FIRST STOVE >  
> NOTE 5 - TETTERODE HISTORY >  
> NOTE 6 - DE LOODS WESTERDOK: JOLINE'S HOUSE >  
> NOTE 7 - TETTERODE KINDERGARTEN >
> NOTE 8 - TETTERODE'S PAINTED LIFT >

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CONTENTS   4 SITES  

SILO

  TETTERODE   DE LOODS   EDELWEIS   APPENDICES   NOTES   SUB-SITES