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Last year I spotted this structure in a front yard in Washington, DC. It is a wedge-shaped cabin [?] made of wood and siding and decking and corrugated plastic. The translucent plastic panel on the angled side facing the house is hinged and often propped open, like a canopy. There is a small platform in front, but I could not see what, if anything, is inside, without going into the yard.
It reminded me, in the accumulation of fleeting instants I’d see it, of Andrea Zittel’s Wagon Stations.
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And her Homestead Units.
![](https://greg.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/az_homestead_a-z-west.jpg)
And her Cellular Compartment Units.
![](https://greg.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/az_cellular_compartment_rosen.jpg)
Those Cellular Compartment Units especially stood out for me, as I wondered what this structure could be for, what could be inside. Zittel created a separate space for each, “single human need or desire from sleeping to eating to reading to watching TV.”
I resisted the impulse to declare someone else’s garden folly a work, and nothing I googled ever brought me any closer to finding one of my own, or figuring out what it is.
![](https://greg.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/bentham_auto-icon_install_hyperallergic.jpg)
I happened to drive by the house again recently, and the structure is still there. So I’ve been thinking of it again.
I had three chairs in my house, but only one in my sitting shed in my front yard, Thoreau did not write.
![](https://greg.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/foothill_blvd_writer_shack_gmap.jpg)
I just need a quiet place to write, but I live on a very busy street with constant traffic.
![](https://greg.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/gehry_norton_house_grumpyoldlimey.jpg)
Anyway, I’ve decided to go ahead, and let this stay as is, as ed. 1. And I am ready to make another. A structure customized for a single human need or purpose. It could be writing, or reading, or sitting, or showering, or pissing. Actually, there’s already a structure for that.