Remy Kroese

"Only literature (and in literature only descriptive - as opposed to the explanatory - : The choice of things, phenomenological dictionary, cosmogony) enables to play the major game: to re-create the world (…), thanks to the concrete as much as the abstract, the internal as well the external nature of the W O R D, thanks to its semantic density. " (Francis Ponge)

The motive of this project is the hunting cabin. The research on it, and with that on the nature of architecture, was like a journey, which literally started in the cabin I discovered a few hundred meters away from my house. From this cabin, the journey went along art and architectural history but also architectural theory and philosophy, but it also was a journey through my own inner self, along my motivation, doubt and wonder. A journey, with the aim to rediscover the roots of architecture. By looking, observing and describing, but also by making and building. A journey like an act, in an attempt to re-create the world, as Ponge did by 'describing' and thus giving a voice to 'things'. And constantly, there was the hunting cabin to return to: to reflect, to consider, to dominate, to kill, to worship, to love.

A spatial installation, entitled 'Salle des Machines', tells the story of my journey through representations of the themes that define the cabin. These are the themes forest and field, which determine its position spatially, and day and night, which define its position in time. Objects, texts, images and sounds define the cabin and demonstrate architectural principles derived from it, but also raise questions and cause constantly changing relationships. An accompanying essay, entitled 'De Jachthut', examines architectural principles derived from the research on the cabin and the relevance of them for architecture and architectural practice.

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