And then we moved in: Post factum documentation of the house
- Publisher:
- Queensland University of Technology
- Publication Type:
- Journal Article
- Citation:
- M/C Journal, 2007, 10 (4), pp. 1 - 5
- Issue Date:
- 2007-01
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Working drawings are produced, when a house is designed, to envisage an imagined building. They are a tangible representation of an object that has no tangible existence. These working drawings act as a manual for constructing the house; they represent that which is to be built. The house comes into being, therefore, via this set of drawings. This is known as documentation. However, these drawings record the house at an ideal moment in time; they capture the house in stasis. They do not represent the future life of the house, the changes and traces the inhabitants make upon a space, nor do they document the path of the person, the arc of their actions, within the space of the house. Other types of documentation of the house allow these elements to be included. Documentation that is produced after-the-event, that interprets the existing , is absent from discourses on documentation; the realm of post factum documentation is a less examined form of documentation. This paper investigates post factum documentation of the house, and the alternative ways of making, producing and, therefore, thinking about, the house that it offers. This acknowledges the body in the space of architecture, and the inhabitation of space, and as a dynamic process. This then leads to the potential of the model of an action representing the motion and temporality inherent within the house. Architecture may then be seen as that which encloses the inhabitant.
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