Grand Designs by Aneta Podkalicka & Esther Milne & Jenny Kennedy

Author:Aneta Podkalicka & Esther Milne & Jenny Kennedy
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781137578983
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Thorne, South Yorkshire. The 1920s Cinema (S13 E1)

Worcestershire. The Cave House (S16 E4)

County Antrim. The Blacksmith’s House (S16 E5)

Somerset. The Concrete Cow Shed (S16 E6)

Horsham. Fun House (S17 E2)

The Wirral. Floating Timber House (S17 E8)

Harringey, London. Victorian Gatehouse (S18 E 2)

County Down. Agricultural House (S18 E3)

South East London. Victorian Dairy House (S18 E5)

Typically these projects are motivated by logic of conservation, enacted through the preservation of the run-down buildings for posterity, collective heritage and the honour of attaching one’s own personal legacy to a longer historical trajectory. In ‘The Lifeboat Station – Denby’ (S11 E3), the exterior is retained as the shell for an ambitious new dwelling inside. To achieve this, the couple has to proceed with the dereliction of the hulk, going to extraordinary measures to preserve it, given the difficulty even of reaching the site. Their effort illustrates the interplay between narratives of consumption and conservation. Figure 4.1 shows the restored exterior and the isolation of the site. From the image, it is possible to see the expanse of sand that had to be navigated by supply trucks between tides in order to get the materials close enough to crane up the 12-metre-high pier. To purely conserve such a building is a different project to making it a home. One’s desire to attach homely qualities to a functional building lies in the broader connection of home to personhood.

Fig. 4.1An expanse of sand is navigated by supply trucks between the tides (S11 E3)

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