‘The oldest house of Lelystad’
This design I had sent in for a pitch for an art piece on a roundabout in a city called Lelystad(Holland). Because this city has no buildings older than 40 years and therefore lacking character, I decided to give the city a history it never had. With the house comes a story:
‘When the land in this area was still sea, there was a very small island at the place where the city Lelystad is today. This island was just big enough for a onemans house and a man called ‘Hendrik the Robber’ lived there. He was a pirate and stole from ships that came cross the area. He even stole the name for his island by taking little parts of the names of other islands: 'Schurkeningen' (which sounds very piraty in dutch!). When the sea was turned into dry land his island was no place to fled anymore. He left and was never seen again. His house is still there, they had build a roundabout around it and then a whole city. Some people have seen smoke comming out of the chinmey and others saw a pulsating light shining through the cracks at night.’
The house is being build in 2010/2011.
