Open House
Architect: Matthew Mazzotta
Location: Alabama
Completed: 2013
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“Open House” is artist Matthew Mazzotta’s latest invention. It’s a public space made from the remnants of a privately owned blighted property. Open House has transformed a wasted ruin of a house into an outdoor theatre open to various community events.
The Open House focused on transforming a dysfunctional house situated between a grocery store and a post office into a sculpture of a house that in its closed condition has no function, but in its transformation becomes a public space for performance, celebration, dialogue, fellowship and community. Thanks to Mazzotta, residents of York now have a public space in which to gather and engage in interpersonal events that are such an important part of community life.
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