Loft Lift (stacked)

Simon Starling’s Loft Lift (stacked) is an elaboration on Loft Lift, where a prototype was built out of three found dovecotes, small, fragile houses made of recycled material.

Loft lift by Simon Starling is an art project initially created for the H+ redevelopment project, a new urban residential area in the harbour of Helsingborg, Sweden.

In this project, Simon Starling explores and critiques the meaning of displacement and inserts resistance and reflexion in a process of urban development. Loft Lift (stacked) is a further elaboration on the project Loft Lift where a prototype was built out of three found dovecotes, small, fragile houses made of recycled material, that were removed and transported from their original environment and stacked on top of each other.

In its use of relocation, recycling and reconfiguration, Loft Lift (stacked) could be described as a model and a poetic expression that explores questions on urban development, gentrification, home, displacement, mobility and migration. The prototype embodies a unique and absurd logic – while providing a new home for pigeons. The project highlights values, such as the social context of the pigeon-fanciers’ association that previously owned the dovecotes, cultural heritage and architectural values, that are frequently overlooked in the development of new neighbourhoods.

Simon Starling’s Loft Lift is also part of the project Samverkan om gestaltning av offentliga miljöer (“Collaboration on the Design of Public Spaces”) in which artists, designers, antiquarians and architects engage actively together in projects around Sweden, alongside urban planners and engineers, to find new approaches and solutions for schools, travel centres, housing developments, urban spaces, hospital grounds and parks. The project is organised by the Public Art Agency Sweden, the Swedish National Heritage Board, the National Board of Housing, Building and Planning and the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design.

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Simon Starling, Loft Lift (stacked), Exercisplan, Skeppsholmen, Stockholm

Simon Starling, Loft Lift (stacked), Exercisplan, Skeppsholmen, Stockholm

Simon Starling, Loft Lift (stacked), Exercisplan, Skeppsholmen, Stockholm

Simon Starling
Loft Lift (stacked)
Exercisplan, Skeppsholmen, Stockholm

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