Cellophane House makes no claim to permanence. As a structure it is, first and foremost, a matrix for holding materials together in such a way that they create an inhabitable enclosure. The key term here is 'holding', as opposed to 'fixing'. Materials that are held are allowed to retain their identity as discrete elements, and can be released at any time. When materials are fixed to one another, they become part of a composite structure, from which they can be freed only through the expenditure of great amounts of energy. The actual materials are, in a sense, irrelevant: it is the manner in which they are joined together that defines the essence of a structure.
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