HEIMSTÄTTE: "A term used in Germany during the housing policy under the Weimar Republic It is the verbatim transcript of the term homestead (property firm). It generally denotes a small house with garden in a subdivision located in the urban periphery, authentic German home for the family ... "
Christine Mengin. "War of the roof & modern architectural house the employee under the Weimar Republic "
This exhibition brings together everything a work of reflection about form, space and architecture in relation to issues related to suburban housing, and individual housing . Volumes, watercolor and drawing, are developing simulations of reality creating singular forms near abstraction.
These homes sold turnkey catalog, commercial and industrial products around the cities and villages inspire my work (their architecture is the product of an interpretation of a regional style and the result of extremely tight economic constraints). I do not mean forget the historic and sociological of this habitat type.
