Precedents

Conical Intersect (1975)

http://www.afterall.org/books/one.work/gordon-matta-clark-conical-intersect

Conical Intersect was a torqued, spiralling 'cut' into two derelict seventeenth-century Paris buildings adjacent to the construction site of the Centre Pompidou. With this landmark work of 'anarchitecture', Matta-Clark opened up these venerable residences to light and air, and began a dialogue about the nature of urban development and the public role of art. Considered today, Conical Intersect reveals the multivalent nature of the artist's practice and his prescient focus on sustainability and creative reuse of the built environment. Within my own design, I want to cut out the exterior cladding from the old house and place it on the new.