VARES architecture residency is located in a school house built in 1936, which has been used as a boarding school for girls and, lately, an adult distance learning high school.
The residency now has comfortable corners for living, yet the building itself is left raw and open for the residing artists to work on and in.
In addition to 15 wood-fired stoves, the house has two floors, 14 rooms, 4 cubbyholes, a cellar and an attic. Log walls behind brick walls painted dark red, stone foundations and a dark puddle under the concrete vaults in the basement.
Over time, the initial elements have been lined with layers. The original timber floor topped with fiberboard and linoleum. A number of covered-up doors revealed within the walls. Nine layers of paint. And much more. A house like mille-feuille.
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