Leisure Housing from Klaus Stattmann

Leisure Housing is a tribute to Schindler. The structure is from Klaus Stattmann, and it’s well, actually, this one is much better explained it the translation of the designers words.

“A spatial structure, in its appearance oscillating between landscape and architecture, serves as starting point for the Leisure House in North Kings Road 825. As a kind of involutionary “between-two-space” it is suspended above a centrally located swimming pool and forms paths, passageways, yards, plateaus, recesses, bays and clearings… The oscillating structure triggers a process of becoming, in the course of which the “between-two-space” to be adapted is shaped to the same extent as the force shaping it…

The model shows what shape this process of becoming could take in architectural terms. Through performative transformation by way of architectural superimposition the oscillating structure is – similar to the corals springing from a reef – rendered into five inhabitable units surrounding a swimming pool for common usage… The concept of the Leisure House remains indeterminate/vague, similar to an elementary particle of which our realization is confined to indications of position or mass but with the potential to produce the unexpected.”

Interesting. I like the potential. Visit Klaus Stattmann to read the entire description, and to see the House Lorrimer, an equally odd structure, on a rock by the sea.