Smiljan Radic House for the Poem of the Right Angle

摘要

In the section on Flesh in Le Corbusier's The Poem of the Right Angle, the viewer occupies the body of a man lying in an ambiguous interior. He seems to be looking at an interior landscape where a woman is peering out towards an opening that reveals a passing cloud. We can see the man's feet and a menhir, which is probably his erect penis. This area is covered by a hand placed dome-shape on the whole lithograph, which increases the sense of an interior or a cavern. The cedar model of the House for the Poem of the Right Angle was first displayed in 2010 at the Global Ends exhibition at Toto Gallery-Ma in Tokyo. Its environment owes a lot to this picture and also to our installation in Venice, The Boy Hidden in a Fish - an opaque reinforced concrete exterior; a quiet, fragrant cedar interior . This house is the latest refuge that we have built. Its structure is a regular 12 cm thick reinforced concrete vault with a span of up to 15 m, resting on the perimeter walls. The vault is cut irregularly around its perimeter, with an open courtyard left inside. This blind volume faces a privileged mountain landscape, encrusted in an oak forest and hemmed in by an artificial garden containing 300 basalt stones. Its enclosure shows that its inhabitants are familiar with the surroundings- like the familiarity of a farmer, a hobo or a monk - naturally.