“Garage” rebuilding project by Graypants collective.

via http://www.graypants.com/

Set as a residential cabin, the building is a careful balance of preserving memory of the existing structure and repurposing materials extracted from it. New and old elements have been merged to celebrate the beauty of everyday interactions – such as entering through the solid Corian sliding speakeasy cabinet, illuminating the stretched canvas walls with a mobile phone, revealing hidden beds beneath wooden floor panels that fold into seating, and lighting the century-old wood burning stove.

Mystery, memory, poetry and light. Reinvigorating a tired, post World War II structure which was worn and forgotten. The existing was rich with stories, its walls layered with past impressions of formwork and family dinners. Separating, and then joyously recombining materials to impart them with new life. Scratched boards become a textured backdrop defining new functions, while the remaining structure is dismantled into flooring, concealing beds and lounges beneath. Reclaimed pine, a discarded basin, and a century-old stove introduce the memories of others: a remix of the familiar and the novel, the past and the future.

he garage aims to make design mysterious. Making mundane tasks of our lives into opportunities that create beauty through joyful interaction.  Providing a canvas that allows imagination to make new old and old new.  The new becoming a theatre to watch the old gradually fade away.  This space wasn’t about ordinary… it was about touching on boundaries of what is ordinary.