Verloren Bekisting is continuing its research within the building of WD40, a temporary projectspace and artist residence in a former garage building. Here we study how the existing building can be transformed merely by using the material available in the building already. The first intervention being a connection between the exhibition space and the inaccessible garden at the back of the building. We made this connection happen by intervening with the existing opening between the exhibition space and the garden. This opening of the facade was filled with glass bricks in a concrete grid, both falling apart. By removing the existing glass bricks, cutting away a part of the concrete grid and adding a new transparent layer, light on the south facade could now enter the space. Two clean cuts were made in the existing wall to create a passage to the garden. The piece of wall removed was laid down flat in the garden and created a step, bridging the height difference between inside and outside. No material wasted. Suddenly the tiles of the interior become a part of the garden. On the first floor of the building, a large door frame was taken out between the kitchen and adjacent loggia. Creating a bigger kitchen space. This door was moved to the garden, painted, and hung on the facade in front of the new opening.
Moving material within the building. Creating two new connections with one intervention. Our first architectural intervention.
