A Sr.ª Guadalupe Acedo
Ou a empregada de limpeza da Casa de Bordéus projectada por Rem Koolhaas. E agora criatura principal do documentário Koolhaas Houselife, filmado segundo o ponto de vista da deliciosa senhora. Lidar com as infiltrações e as inundações e dar uso a muitos panos e baldes é com ela, sobretudo por causa dos espaços a
céu aberto no último andar, concebidos pelo arquitecto. «If I had lots of money, I would not buy a house like this one», diz ela.
«In 1998 the owner of the Maison à Bordeaux, who is wheelchair-bound as
the result of an accident, commissioned Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas to
build him a dwelling of a very special kind – one that would be suited
to the requirements of its disabled owner and yet at the same time
represent the aesthetic standards of contemporary architecture. The
result was a series of architectural and technical curiosities such as,
for example, the elevating platform via which each of the three floors
can be accessed, or the 'joystick', an illuminated, slightly phallic
plastic lever which serves as a door opener but unfortunately gave up
the ghost at the time the film was made. This time we are not dealing with the stylised, tidy photos which are
intended to introduce the observer in a refined aesthetic manner to
apparently unoccupied houses. Instead it is the charming Guadalupe who
squeezes through the narrow stairways with her vacuum cleaner and
through whose eyes we get to know this architectural icon with all its
fascinations and peculiarities.» (Retirado daqui.)
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