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1975 -1980 Fano Foundation Educational Village/International Summer School in Italy
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Annual recreations of a primeval dwelling.
Every year at Fano, Slobodan Dan Paich lead an enactment of building a primeval dwelling.
Loosely inspired by commentaries, drawings and notions about origins of buildings in early architectural treatises, and strongly guided by the intentions articulated in the summer school's brochure describing activities at Masseria Fano:
"It is an experiment in living together, in a learning community which challenges itself with the reconstruction of everything as if from the beginning."
Participants at Fano engaged in collecting and transforming natural materials at hand in this instance into building the primordial hut.
The hut had a practical and discreetly ceremonial value. It stood at the Fano stream where water was collected for drinking and for use in daily activities.
The little building was a symbolic landmark, a focus of the central courtyard and was used as a papermaking hut.
After trial and error, we rediscovered the qualities of split cane, which made the subsequent models of the hut more fluid .
The papermaking vat before it was covered with a new hut.
This image and the one at right are of the split cane version built in 1988.
This endeavor at Fano influenced a number of later projects and is still inspirational to this day, as part of a skill set that informs Slobodan's collaborations and personal projects.
- Royal College of Art research in model making (1980-1989)
- Arbor Project - Participatory Installation (1986)
- Arroyo Viejo Park Project (1988-2000)
- Temescal Creek Project (1989)
- Co-existence Project (2005)
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