A new life

I always had a faschination with ruins and old abandoned houses. They scare me and tickles my imagination at the same time. I went visiting a friend who lives in the countryside of Sweden a while ago and she told me there were two abandoned houses a couple of kilometers away from her house and I was immediatley intrigued and presuaded her to go for a walk and check them out. They were the most beautiful old, wooden houses and a tree had grown right through one of them. My friend dind't want to go inside so we stayed at the front door, peaking in, and obviously the house had just been left, since there were still curtains and furniture (60's style) left. I both felt sorry for this beautiful house, found it spooky and started making up stories in my head about the people who had lived there. Somehow, to me, old houses carries with them all the stories of the people who lived in it wich gives them some kind of a soul. Maybe that's why I feel so sorry for the abandoned ones, almost like they were human.
A couple of days ago I came across this awesome blog and found this inspiering project by Naumann Architektur. Unfortunately I don't read german so I can't tell you more about them, but I am in awe of this project. So poetic in a way, that the old house got a new soul.

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