“I fullered one summer as a ditch-digger in South America. I was a teen-ager. I enjoyed the sun, the physical exertion, the camaraderie of the other fellows. It was fun. I knew that I did not have to do this the rest of my life. I could quit. This is another major difference between fullering and working. With fullering one knows one can stop. With work, one feels trapped, compelled to continue against one’s will.” Jim Haynes
Building is a very lengthy method of placing materials in a coherent whole. It is a play of sorts which follows structural rules of a particular physical situation. By partaking in a physicality of the construction process, a state of unlimited potentiality of form is revealed. Built object is open for interpretation at any stage of its construction long before coming into full effect of its designated program. Yet what precedes the becoming of architecture, is a process of negotiation. During which the potentiality of material undergoes a struggle between its desire and designation. While opportunity for materialisation at times is exhausted, geometry of the form, not its idea, is nonetheless accidentally animated through its temporary use and appropriation by the naïve, the simple working hand, through sharing a good banter, having a cup of coffee or a lunch break, revealing the subtle sublimity in disguise. One’s lingering in an unbuilt space becomes an act of habitation,Building and living in the summer of 2024 a use which in fact precedes its date of coming in effect. It begs to ask a simple question, what if there is no deadline to begin with?
