pappenheim QUIET IN THE CARDBOARD BOX

pappenheim QUIET IN THE CARDBOARD BOX is part of a project developed in 2006, Kyoto, Japan. pappenheim is a mobile place, a cardboard box house, which is foldable to the size of one tata-mi (floor mat, basis module of Japanese architecture). I walked around the city with it. Placed in several positions along a river, I invited passers-by for tea. pappenheim´s starting point is dealing with tea culture, as well as tea gardens and its architecture. Another point of interest was huts made by homeless along the river. To dwell beside the river has a tradition here, found a space for the poor of society. Karewamono (people from the river) substantially had part in the creation of Karesansui (dry garden), which was an aristocratic hobby. In the beginning they were forced into outside labour, later some of them became stone and landscape gardening specialists. Located at the ends of social hierarchy, I observe formal similarities in the structure of architecture itself from tea and homeless huts. The combination of the delicate aesthetic, necessity, reality and utopia of society, these are the issue that I utilize in my work.

"Ceaselessly the river flows, and yet the water is never the same, while in the still pools the shifting foam gathers and is gone, never staying for a moment. Even so is man and his habitation."
Kamo no Chomei, “An account of my hut”, Kyoto, 12. /13. c