"Give Me Some Wiggle Room": How to Feel at Home in the Gap between Design, Building and Decay. Issue 1 (2nd January 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Decroos, Bart; Schrijver, Lara
• Is Part Of: Architecture and culture. Volume 7:Issue 1(2019)
• Page Start: 51
• Page End: 68
• Publication Date: 2019-01-02
• Subjects: tolerance -- architecture -- new materialisms -- object-oriented ontology; 720.103
• DOI: 10.1080/20507828.2018.1557836
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2050-7828

Abstract

Abstract: This article takes the Caritas building by De Vylder Vinck Taillieu (2016) as a foil to discuss tolerance from a number of perspectives, demonstrating the productive nature of the very notion of tolerance as a filter through which to understand a contemporary building with an innovative approach to professional conventions in both psychiatric care and architecture. The building, a pavilion on the campus of a psychiatric care facility in Belgium, flies in the face of architectural conventions for care facilities, yet provokes a rethinking of contemporary institutional care. Its strategic use of the gap between idea and building and of improvization in the building process provide a striking example of the potential ripple effects from a singular project that provide "wiggle room" in order to understand what architecture can do.