What intrigues me about the Primitive Huts project is the apparent paradox of creating models of buildings made from "found" objects without the intention of building them at full scale. The act of recreating these components in detail at a small scale shows a remarkable reverance for the individual parts.
The parts themselves are taken from their industrial context, where they were purely functional, recreated, and put on display in a museum where people stop to look at them and perhaps see the dock leveller or the screw jack in a new way.
I have begun to look at the websites for manufacturers of shipping containers, scaffolding, industrial stairs, etc. I never thought about the many companies devoted entirely to making and selling scaffolding before, and now that I have I wonder why I didn't think about it before. Scaffolding is everywhere, but for some reason purely functional objects can have a tendency to disappear or be seen through.
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11/23/11
Post by Julia Morrissey
Edited by Celia He
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