Small House
— A Place in Space
In 1951 the architect Le Corbusier built a summer cabin at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, in the south of France. This building, Le Petit Cabanon, is only 3,66 m x 3,66 m. In his search for the ideal human environment, Le Corbusier’s measurements were meant to represent the absolute minimum area that a person could live in. Trudi Jaeger has for this project found a new focal point – a small lakeside cabin, scarcely bigger than Le Petit Cabanon, a space that is both a concrete and metaphorical starting point for the architecture of the imagination, and for presence.
Excerpts from Uncomposing Space – Trudi Jaeger and the Chronotope, by Synnøve Vik
Being-There
The Poetics of Space, is a book written by the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962). This work, which discusses phenomenology and architecture, takes up questions of how our surroundings appear to us. Bachelard’s departure point is our lived, everyday experience of architecture. He describes an ‘architecture of imagination’, an architecture that considers how the people who use it will experience it.
Through her examination of the potential of space, presence and of what is sufficient to fill a space, Trudi Jaeger employs a similar methodology in her drawings and paintings. The first phase in her long-term project, ‘Small House – A Place in Space’, has been given the title Being-There.
Directed by Trudi Jaeger, filmed by Anne Dorthe Kalve, edited by Erlend Haarr Erikson.
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Other books by Bachelard:
L'eau et les rêves (1942) (Water and Dreams, 1983)
L'air et les songes (1943) (Air and Dreams, 1988)
Vaskehuset Sophies minde, Kråkenes, Bergen. Architect: Frederik Konow Lund.