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Hole Houses Turn Derelict Homes Into Light Art

An architecture firm drills loads of holes in rundown buildings turning them into residential disco balls.

Usually the fate of an abandoned home is for it to sit there rotting away until some neighborhood kids come along and either use it for nefarious activities or smash it to pieces, until it’s finally demolished and rebuilt on, living on in family photo albums and shared memories. It’s a sad end, for a house anyway. But architecture firm Hutchinson and Maul weren’t going to let houses go out like that. Instead they decided to find some run-down homes in Seattle and give them a send off that would be fitting to the enrichment and shelter they’d given countless families. Feeling they deserved one last hurrah before being wiped from the earth, they filled the homes with holes and turned them into a kind of residential disco ball, scattering the house with moving dots of light, as sunlight shone through.

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They explain:

The Hole House projects utilized the act of demolition to explore the qualities of light. Hole House #1 involved drilling holes into the façade of an old farmhouse slated for demolition. For Hole House #2, we tried to think of variations on the first project, such as "Sawzall-House" and "Chain-saw House", but those turned out to be too dangerous. Since time was of the essence, we decided to do a second Hole House. As an added feature, we stuffed some of the holes with colored acrylic rods. We then had a big party, and demolished the building the next day.

They should think about doing a world tour.

[via Lostateminor.com]

Photos: Hutchinson and Maul Architecture