WIDE LOAD [ BRED LAST ] A House Moved

The book is a photographic archive and text of a house move in Northern Sweden. It considers the historic, cultural, technical and material significance of wholesale house moving (husflyttningar) in the region, through a single, historic house move in Umeå, 2021. The main frame of analysis is the spatial politics of un-building. It is an investigation of the vernacular mobility of shifting built and occupied forms in relation to a historic and future context of urban reconfiguration, a proposed architecture of de-growth in Northern Sweden. The visual work explores context through the form of the book itself. It is also a potential model that constructs and translates analysis of the space. It is a collaborative architectural work to document the house move and other spatial productions, models, drawings and collage of the space beneath and between the ground and house, image projections, exhibitions and events, as public exchange.

Contents

 Preface Un-building as spatial dialogue and
moving buildings in Norrland page 7

 1. Uplift page 11

 Dialogue One: This is another Europe. A contextual
discussion situating the house page 35

 2. The Move: Teg to Degernäs 10 Km page 45

 3. Settling. After the move to Degernäs page 71

 Dialogue Two: A very strange looking house and it appears to only lightly touch the ground. A discussion about the nature of the house, its interior and a small vision event page 85

 4. Digital Model page 95

 Essay: Moving materials and ways of life page 106

Essay: A house moved [Husflyttningar] page 122

5. Moving inside Degernäs page 139

6. Long load [Lång last] page 159

7. Sinking. Other lives of the cabin [Stuga] demolition page 175

Dialogue Three: What is this mound? A Discussion about the demolition of cabins at lake Nydala, their relation to the moving house, and a small vision event page 187

8. Sloyd model and other representations page 197

9. Husflyttningar as culture page 233

10. Ep[a]log event page 251

Volunteers Poster page 257

Acknowledgements page 260

Colophon page 264