Their biggest challenge was securing the house’s foundation....Other work included stabilizing the walls by injecting adhesive between the lath and plaster with a veterinarian’s needle and transforming a small bathroom into an elevator shaft — NYT
Jori Finkel profiles Carlie Wilmans founder of 500 Capp Street Foundation. The foundation was established to stabilize and preserve 500 Capp Street (exterior, interior, site-specific installations) in San Francisco, which was the longtime home and studio of the Conceptual artist David Ireland (1930-2009).
On a related note, check out the discussion regarding Experimental preservation and architectural authorship with Jorge Otero-Pailos, from Archinect Sessions #47
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Does the torch chandelier comply with building codes?
I can not imagine an open flame that isn't within a protected enclosure of some kind is remotely legal or compliant.
Really interesting. I love that they're trying not to preserve it in one random moment jointly decided upon, as a memorial, but to keep it changing and "alive". This is such a concern of mine with house museums - my own relationship with Saarinen's Miller House being critical to this point of view - that they die as soon as they're preserved. A house is the most intimate space that crosses the public/private line in what should be totally unprescribed ways. Keeping it "living" is the only way to understand it as a home.
^ Don't you think it would be a better direction to use psychology to try and create a humane and empathetic environment than it would be to make a Skinner Box.
A guess on my part, but I think your project will elicit superstitious behavior.
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