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'Show
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'My
dream is
a bathroom with a mirror'
House
Recovery
23 meter Collective
Mural
What is your dream?
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String
Web I
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Old house from the street.
Celebration picture with Ana Beatriz(upper left corner), Sabryna(middle), Tiago(in
front
with cap)
and
all
their
friends
and
relatives from
the
street, together with Karoline on celebration night of the new finished house.
We are sitting in the new front-room.
The family living in the house: Kleber, Ana Beatriz, Sabryna, and three smaller
kids from the street.
Tiago, brother and son of the house, standing in the new kitchen.
Sabryna e Bandidos - the band of the two sisters and their friends.
Sabryna singing solo in her and her sister Ana Beatriz's new front-room.
Sabryna and Bandidos in the new front-room.
friends of the house in the new front room. |
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House Recovery, video 6:57min Version
22.44mb
Video
photographer+Video editing Amarante T. Souza
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to view Bigger + High Res version of the video (24.25 mb)
Sabryna 19-anos/Sabryna 19-years, Bairro
Surubi, Resende, Brasil
Feveiro 2007 / February 2007
Creative Actions chose to make
a recovery of the oldest house in Bairro Surubi, which
was build more than 60 years ago next
to the railway station. Bairro Surubi used to be
an area full of coffee fields, and with workers
from the fields living in the area. At this time
the
railway station was the meeting place of the city.
Today the railway station and railway tracks are gone, only a dusty
road is left, where people still live in houses from this timeperiod.
The family living in the oldest
house from this timeperiod, and with lowest sanitary standard(no
toilet), and lowest conditions
for living(no job income),
asked the
Associacao de Moradores da Surubi/The Citizens' Organization of Bairro Surubi
for help to recover the house. Many
different
families
have
been
living
in
the
house. Today the family consists of a father and his
two daughters
and a
younger
son living
happily in the 1,5 room house.
Since Creative Actions collaborate
with
this organization on cultural and artistic aesthetic projects in Bairro Surubi
it was
evident
to
give the house and the family the help they needed.
The terms
for the family to get the house recovery help was
from all family members, and all possible relatives, and friends,
to make a .
Creative Actions would supply materials and pay 1-2 professional
building workers, and would also come and work actively by the
house to keep the energy going.
This 'casa-recuperacao'
was a cultural encounter between
the antique local standards of housing (no
toilet, no shower, only one zink for all purposes, no drain,
ruined
electricity, and the walls, floor and roof were half-way
torn
down,
rotten and full of mould fungus) and
what
Creative Actions and the Citizens Organization of Surubi would
call
a minimum
standard
for a house (at least one room, a toilet,
a shower, a zink for washing, a zink for toilet, a zink for
kitchen,
a cooking place, good cement floor, clean brick walls, roof,
door, window, electricity, water). The
house should as minimum have this standard, when recovery was
finished.
This 'casa-recuperacao' was also an for
young people in connection to the house.. E.g.
the son-in-law learned how to build a standard brick-wall and
a wodden
roof, and
much
more in connection to building-skills as Walber da Silva Barboza
taught him how to do it. E.g. the daughter learned how to blend
mortar
The
daugthers learned how to clean the walls from '60-years' of
old dust and mould fungus
with
water
and clorine, as Karoline H. Larsen washed the entire house
inside, and in second round both girls assisted. They learned
about the
dangers of mould fungus, how it can cause bronchitis(one of
the girls has broncitis), chronic fatigue, loss of memory,
respiratory
illness(asthama) and more.
, both daughters and friends took
part in the renovation of the old kitchen
cabine and
decorated
it with
paint
afterwards.
The
next
day one of the daughters
also
painted the closet for the family's clothes.
The 'House-Recovery' was also a between the family in the house and
the local people around, who would pass by and
have
a
chat about the process. Relatives living in the area would
supply too
with help.
One neighbour would lend their garden hose, others would bring
water and soda for the workers, others would give a small mirror
to the bathroom, others would help carrying stones and so on.
The last evening, all involved people watched the House Recovery
film together and the two daughters of the house and their
friends dressed up and made a music youth band for
the night: Sabryna e Bandidos. To be able to invite friends
over and inside the house was a totally new possibility for
the family!Photostills by Amarante T. Souza and
Karoline H.
Larsen.
Video photographer and video editing
by Amarante T. Souza.
Architectural planning and building process Walber Da Silva.
Old-front room of the house.
Old kitchen and further back the old front-room.
Old dusty road where the railway used to run through the city.
Washing walls with water and chlor.
Fixing space for a bathroom.
Outside wall is torn away.
The two daughters are helping.
A young friend and the son and the father working.
The cousin of the daugthers.
New floor, and metalt structure for the wall.
Old kitchen closet, where lower part had to be cut off because
of rotten wood.
Housecleaning. Everything in the house out, and Sabryna, Ana
Beatriz and Karoline washed entire house in water and chloro
to desinfect.
After finishing house-painting inside and outside.
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