Friday, December 18, 2009
The Idea of Home
The “Les Olympiades” building in Paris, France and the clandestine shoe manufacturing industry in Elche, Spain share the creation of a new hybrid of identities for people in the cities. These buildings take on a life like quality because they are designed and occupied by humans. The building attracts a certain type of people and community. Both buildings draw many parallels with the people who inhabit it. The identity of both buildings are shaped with the shifting lives of the people residing in them. As their new identity forms so does the new identity of the building. The Olympiades building is an example of a building that was designed to be a housing unite but the buildings targeted market rejected it, leaving the building vacant. The building remained without a true identity until a new community of Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, and north Africans found it. The price was low and affordable. It created the perfect place to not only live but also an opportunity to establish a business. This new community created a hybrid of identities because they saw the home for more than the Western ideal. They saw the home as not only a place to call home but a place to call work too. They transformed what is traditionally thought to be the workplace, and redefined into something new.
The clandestine shoe manufacturing industry in Elche, Spain has changed the identity of many buildings in the area. Woman, housewives, and children all share in transforming the identity of the home, the city, and the people in it. The woman have found it very convenient and rewarding to have the opportunity to work from home. In the essay, House Factories, by Multiplicity the situation is described as very rewarding for the local economy and women, but there is a fear that challenges this hybridization. The traditional ideals have place the woman under examination because there is a traditional fear that when a woman works the home falls apart. Many fearful questions are, who is going to bear children, cook meals, and clean the house now that the woman is working? There is not only the logistical argument of the woman’s role in society, but also the appearance of it. In Elche, Spain the woman there camouflage their houses with an allusion of western ideas of normalcy but the building releases a few clues to the streets, like the spinning and ticking of sewing machines as they run thread through leather.
The clandestine shoe manufacturing industry in Elche, Spain has changed the identity of many buildings in the area. Woman, housewives, and children all share in transforming the identity of the home, the city, and the people in it. The woman have found it very convenient and rewarding to have the opportunity to work from home. In the essay, House Factories, by Multiplicity the situation is described as very rewarding for the local economy and women, but there is a fear that challenges this hybridization. The traditional ideals have place the woman under examination because there is a traditional fear that when a woman works the home falls apart. Many fearful questions are, who is going to bear children, cook meals, and clean the house now that the woman is working? There is not only the logistical argument of the woman’s role in society, but also the appearance of it. In Elche, Spain the woman there camouflage their houses with an allusion of western ideas of normalcy but the building releases a few clues to the streets, like the spinning and ticking of sewing machines as they run thread through leather.
Friday, October 30, 2009
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