Built from the harvest of a magic urban forest, this is the
Swinging Art House Donor Trees Overview.
The House on Farm Vliervelden - Insta Reel (dutch)
Swinging Art House is part of the performance De Akker als Schilderij 
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Swinging Art House – an social sculpture by Jos Bregman aka Wdwrd
Swinging Art House is a predominantly straw-bale-douglas-wood house being built (nov 2018 – nov 2020) by us, Ellen Winkel and Jos Bregman. Because the house has a slope and a cirkel and an angle and a vortex roof – and a tree house on top and a greenhouse attached and a veranda also – we felt it was swinging. Because Jos is an artist and is adamant of putting wood samples of his social tree installations into swing, we decided to make the house as a work of art.
First things first: the straw originates from Kees de Vissers neighbour, in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen (NL), the douglas trees grew at the Belgium village le Gives. But how does using wood samples of Jos’ social installations make the house a work of art?
Jos’ social tree installations are called Slow Exploding Tree performances (SET’s). Jos: “During SET’s I recreate the original wholeness of a felled – either by storm or saw – tree. I then use a technique known from hiphop: sampling. I sample not songs but trees. Sample sizes vary from XXXS to XXXL. and all samples hold an ID chip. Each unique ID I collect in the SET database. Each chip holds the original location of the tree it was sampled from.
People who buy a sample are my audience and they help me ‘remixing’ the original whole of the tree. They help me by telling me the new location of their sample. Both the collection of new locations, and the database of all ID’s  represent the wholeness of the tree in a new arrangement. The tree is so to say rearranged, or remixed.
Me and my audience make a social tree installation, a social sculpture. As long as there are samples the performance is ongoing. The performance can expand by making big samples into  many smaller samples. And over time (presents for next Christmas, or an inheritance after many, many years) samples keep spreading over the world. So the tree is continuously being rearranged into a new ‘whole’.
As I have many ongoing SET’s, I will integrate samples in many forms into our Swinging Art House. Thus, I make it into an inverse variant of my Slow Exploding Tree performances:. It is a Slow Imploding Forest of Sampled Trees.

The Swiss journalist Thomas Stadelmann wrote about Swinging Art House:
“Das Swinging Art House fällt in Oosterwold auf. Das hat mit seiner Mehrdeutigkeit zu tun: Die aufgeschüttete grüne Auffahrt – die auf den ersten Blick nirgendwo, tatsächlich aber zum Baumhaus führt – spielt mit dem Image des Erdhauses, gleichzeitig ist das Gebäude ein geschwungener, hölzerner Gartenpavillon. Seine symbolische Wirkungskraft verdankt das Atelier- und Wohnhaus dem weithin sichtbaren Baumhaus, drinnen: ein Raum, ein Dach, ein Ofen und ein Fenster zum Hof. «Unser Ferienhaus», ist Jos stolz. Beim abschliessenden Foto mit Künstler und Haus wird mir klar: Jos bringt mit seinem Haus womöglich genau das zum Ausdruck, was die Menschen in der Do-it-youself-Erzählung von Oosterwold insgeheim miteinander verbindet, sie jedoch mit ihren Häusern und Gärten nur selten zum Ausdruck bringen können, nämlich: Den Traum, den Mut und die Freiheit, das eigene Habitat einmal im Leben mit der Leichtigkeit einer Kinderzeichnung zu entwerfen und danach – bei der richtigen Gelegenheit – mit den eigenen Händen zu bauen.” (From: https://www.stadtfragen.ch/studienreise-nl/op-bezoek-in-oosterwold-jos/

Tom Waes included Swinging Art House in his program Reizen Waes (from 45:47). Pointing at the house Waes says somewhat incredulously: “Some one once came up with the idea to give people freedom to build in Almere Oosterwold. And with freedom to build, this is what you get”. Swinging Art House was also featured in Almere City Center, as an example of building a green city together. Swinging Art House is 1 of 100 entries in Almere Architecture City (nov 2024 – nai010 publishers)
Photo galery on the house: