Matyรก Cigler DALE noreg remote place(s) childhood space(s) spring 2016
white ball 50°05’17.95 N 14°23’46.38 E 252m amsl
It is a family house in the oldest part of Prague. The house has several apartments all full of different family members. It was built in 1931 by my grand grandfather. There shell be specificaly described the children’s room, as it is the only place in the house that exists just in my memory and nowhere else. It is a place for three They divide the space and all of it. They fight and
sons. share play.
It is a very vertical space, very pragmatic as well. The north-west half is divided in to three cubicles, the south-east is an open space. Today, it’s all gone.
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view
(elevation)
The dominant of the view is a smaller copy of an Eiffel tower. The top of the tower is exactly in the same hight as the one in Paris, but it is shorter, because it’s on a hill.
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the hill
(elevation)
Under the Eiffel tower is a hill covered by forest. It is partly deciduous, partly conifer forest. It is showing the time of the year. In winter you see couples kissing between the trees.
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frame of the view
(elevation)
The view from the rooms is always framed by wisteria, a climbing plant, taking over the whole house. Each season has a different frame: purple summer yeallow autumn bare winter green spring
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a balcony (a) and the hill (b) (plan and section)
There was always this dialog between the balcony and the hill against it. People from the white ball are taking pictures of the hill and tourists from the hill taking pictures of the white ball house.
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b
a
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parasite
(perspective)
The wisteria has been always eating the house. Crounching its old weak concrete and metal handrail bars. It was like a constant fight between the plant and our mom cutting it. It was easy to choose a side - the plant must win!
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house sign (a)
(elevation)
25. July 1648 swedish general Hans Christoff von KÜnigsmarck sieged Prague. His cannons shot the our house many times, it was full of cannon balls - they were white and this is how it has got its name. It wasn’t actually this house, this one was built later on the same spot, but there are still many swedish balls in the house.
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a
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house in the rock
(section)
This house (a) is carved into a rock (b). This keeps it very cool during summer. There is also a secret passage (c) from the cellar connected to ancient castle routes. Nobody has ever dared to enter it.
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a b
c
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weird stairs
(axo)
There are stairs leading to an upper apartement. Strange lound noises of an old man were coming from out of there. He would sometimes come down and turn off our lights. He always thought we smoke weed.
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the room of three evils (a)
(plan)
This is the only place that has changed over the years, coincidence? I don’t thing so. b: c: d: e: f: g: h: i:
balcony sister’s room parents room hall weird stairs bathroom dark room kitchen - living room
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g
i
b
d
h
e
a
c
f
b
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me
door
situation
(plan)
window
window
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the room - separated spaces three three three three
brothers chairs tables stairs
(plan)
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the room - common space
(plan)
son nr.3 son nr.1
common space
son nr.2
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one module
(elevation)
The mother has designed a wooden inbuilt furniture for the room. Every each of the sons would got one compartment.
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my space
(plan)
When there are three brothers in one room, they fight a lot, therefore one has to guard his territory carefully. It is like standing straight in a storm.
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ejacuation(s)
(elevation)
In the middle of the room, there hangs one big painting from Lamr with penis-like shapes. And the sons just wonder, they wonder why this painting needs to become the painting of their childhood? why? why? why!
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gray carpet is the background of their games (plan)
It is chafed by their knees and the holes were sewed up by their mother.
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stairs
(axo)
teeth and ribs fall you out
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mother’s womb (axo) the mother is sewing cloth for her boys, so they have everything same and don’t need to fight she is building furniture for her boys, so they have everything same and don’t need to fight it doesn’t help
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Colour in the room (plan) There were not many colours in the room. Just sometimes sun would charge warm colours on the gray office carpet. Sometimes blood has appeared.
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mother’s womb (model) The space dedicated to one sun.
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