Huiske or Little House
I have been building a house.
In close affinity of my parents house lies a plot of land. This land is concidered to be no mans land . Here on this plot, wich is waiting on legal decision about the future means, I am building my own house. The soil of this plot needs remediation due to its highly polluted state. Therefore, my house is not an inconvenience to others. I challenged myself with this task after doing research about informal architecture. This research led me to the conclusion that there's something wrong about the way we look at buildings in general. We tend to see informal building as something primitive, illegal, shallow, unstable and often distasteful. This idea is often far from true. When someone builds their own house, this house will be made using their needs and logic. Different persons, value different things. We must approach the paradigms around building without orientalism. My decision to build a house of my own came from not being able to help building in Nubia. I became interested in different building techniques around the world and started to wonder what my own technique could be.
So I started building with some base rules.
no power tools
no bought materials
no building plan
no internet tips and tricks
try to build with others
make it live-able
Everything else was based on my needs, knowledge of physics and a whole lot of improvising solutions to problems that occurd.
