Emotional Architecture: House number two's recreational pulse or The dreaming house. Seeking for more emotion in architecture and based on the communicating facade FAN are realising a first experimental event in Munich/Germany this summer. The residential building will be extended and modernised by FAN-member Florian Wurfbaum shortly. In the meantime the building is used as studios for artists and architects as well as for living. The event taking place in that location aims to visualise the effects of the spacial model mentioned above. The ambition is to display the interim use as a recreational phase for the building via a communicating facade. The interface between the inside and the outside gives them the opportunity to show the building's state of dream, to point out the ongoing invisible process on the inside. Therefore the existing windows are being replaced by flexible red rubber membranes. Changes of pressure on the inside of the rooms make the membrane pulsating and pressing out onto the public space.

The consistently upswelling and decongesting membranes visualise the recreational pulse, they show the building in a phase of sleep. Additional to that basic rhythm the pressure onto these membranes grows with the amount of people and visitors inside the building. The membrane now gets even more inflated and the visitors trigger the dreaming building's rapid eye movement phase. At this four day event visitors will have the chance to observe a sleeping building from the inside and from the outside. The intermediate users will open up their privat- and workspace to the public.









On the next pictures you can see the test stage from 23.8.2004