No details were directed only ideas shared. The craftsmen knitted in concrete blocks to repair the brickwork. As the building was yet in its first stage of demolishing but also of its use in time needed to be repaired rather the restored. Brickwork and wooden floors and structures. The belief was and is there that this experiment leads to new understandings and by that to other experiments. Thirdly the competition proposal included a tall dollhouse size model openable and changeable. And greenhouses were introduced as new rooms. The basement was opened to become an auditorium. Windowsills were lowered to open it in all directions. The ground level was replaced by pebbles so water could drain in. All mineral material has been removed so the rough building could breath again. Staying as close with the found object was the aim. Roof tiles were already lifted as the demolishing was yet started though halted. Secondly the villa itself was respected as it was found. A simple idea on a white logia for each other building as the original villas all had one and this villa got one in it’s later life. The first was to inscribe the villa again in its context amongst the other in the park. The competition proposal had three different aims. A competition was the outcome Another way of program. A young curator balancing on the edge of architecture and psychiatry was invited to motorise the process. A workgroup with doctors and therapists and inhabitants was raised. Could it be something else? Could it lead to an other way of life. Knowing the villa could not cope any nowadays standard or regulation. Once again a villa is about to be demolished. Only sign of their time and never part of the context. Replaced by real typical hospital buildings. Every department its own ‘villa’, but united by the architecture. Back then, a unique place, ahead of its time, given a clinic form as separate buildings.
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