Video: Vogelenzangpark 17b - a house, not a tree house
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Tree house, most often, it is a small room made of wood, fixed on a sturdy trunk somewhere in the backyard of a private house. Here comes the Dutch filmmaker and artist Benjamin Verdonck breaks the general idea of this small architectural form. He raised a real house on a tree.
On the site Culturology. RF We have already talked about the world's largest tree house, created in the city of Crosville, Tennessee, USA, which has ten floors and about eighty rooms. Of course, the Vogelenzangpark 17b building, which has recently appeared in the Belgian city of Ghent, cannot compete with this building in size. But this is a real house, not a random jumble of architectural elements!
Benjamin Verdonk designed the Vogelenzangpark 17b treehouse for the Track: a Contemporary City Conversation festival, the same event that featured such works as the Bookyard Vineyard Library and the Castle of Vooruit.
Vogelenzangpark 17b is set on a tree in the backyard of a nursing home in Ghent. Moreover, it was created in the image and likeness of this very institution. Visually, of course.
Thus, Benjamin Verdonk creates a contrast between a building designed for old people and a building designed for children. This is done so that the viewer, looking at these two so similar, but so different buildings, thinks about his past and his future, correlates them with each other. After all, this is how spiritual harmony is achieved!
Unfortunately, children (and indeed any visitors) are not allowed to enter the Vogelenzangpark 17b tree house, which makes the purpose of this object even more incomprehensible and questionable!
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