Lost in Transition

Transitions is a project about the memory of what used to be, the confrontation with what is and the longing for the things to come. It asked for a way to combine the well-known past with the unknown future, all in the actual present.

Imagine a big house, a villa, located in a historical part of a provincial town. By starting with a conventional architectural vocabulary like symmetry, recognizable spaces like corridors and items such as regular windows, a sign of recognition was captured. The ‘well-known’ one could say.
Besides being a place to live it is also a medical practice. This program gains momentum when private & public are forced to meet or try to hide from each other. The definition of privacy changes fast and so the project searches for the question what privacy actually is. At first glance the classical lay-out seems a sturdy, clear organisational principle. There it is a carefully designed point where you’ll get what you see. But, by pushing the public and the private character in such a way that they start to interfere, a sequence of moments unrolls. They confront both inhabitants as well as visitors with eachother as apparent coincidences. By inviting the patient near the most private rooms, also the effect of having that luxury (i.e. to be seen) is shared.