<Cesar>Can you please describe the sensation between when you are inside and
when you are outside? How is it inside the house?</Cesar>
<Tony>Nice, warm, safe, normal.</Tony>
<Cesar>And now how does it feel outside?</Cesar>
<Tony>Ruthless! Ruthless! Ruthless! Cold, hungry.</Tony>
<Cesar>If you imagine your house, do you picture it very open or very closed
and warm?</Cesar>
<Tony>Yes, small, short.</Tony>
<Cesar>Not open?</Cesar>
<Tony>No, no, no... Cosy.</Tony>
<Cesar>So in your house, what is important? Size, colour, smell... What is impor-
tant?</Cesar>
<Tony>Security. Because in the street people rob you, beat you up, everything.</
Tony>
<Cesar>Since you are an electrician you know how to build stuff , so do you like
this idea of building your own house?</Cesar>
<Tony>Yeah</Tony>
<Cesar>Would you be able to build your own house?</Cesar>
<Tony>About 65% yes, electricity, mason, but some things not </Tony>
<Cesar>like plumbers works, water...</Cesar>
<Tony>yes, I cant also lift up big big stuff, heavy manual.</Tony>
<Cesar>How many people would you need to build?</Cesar>
<Tony>2 men, maybe 3</Tony>
<Cesar>How long would it take you to build?</Cesar>
<Tony>4, 5, 6 weeks.</Tony>
<Cesar>And you will build concrete, metal, plastic?</Cesar>
<Tony>I would build semi, like a log cabin : concrete foundation, wooden walls,
wooden roof, felted roof insulation</Tony>
<Cesar>Windows?</Cesar>
<Tony>Yes, plastic windows</Tony>
<Cesar>Normal lock or chain</Cesar>
<Tony>Normal locks. And a guard dog</Tony>
<Cesar>Dog inside or outside the house?</Cesar>
<Tony>Inside in his own little house</Tony>
<Cesar>Can you please draw the house of your dreams if you could build it?</
Cesar>
<Maxime>I made a list of question to ask people “where in your house do you
like the most? you feel the most comfortable? 95% answer : toilets! Yes, of course!
Than you wonder, why the toilets? if you look closely, it is the place you are by
yourself , the smallest place you have, so why not making this place better?</
Maxime>
<Cesar>Nooo! You would destroy it! The architect sometimes has this tendency
to want to intervene when he is not invited.
People are not demanding open architecture, so why trying so hard? I believe this
is quite an avant-garde idea : on one side most people don’t want it or are even
scared of it, on the other side it is a research that potentially holds a lot of good
things. It is a valuable experience to try, to learn from. </Cesar>