A glass 'house' hidden in woodland has left people scratching their heads.
The glass structure can be found nestled in a wooded area off Menlove Avenue in Woolton, close to four 1960s tower blocks on Vale Road. Hundreds of people pass through the area each day, but many have been left wondering what the structure is and how it ended up there.
It was commissioned as an art installation back in 2001 by Liverpool Housing Action Trust in partnership with the Guinness Trust, under the name "Outhouse." The glass feature is the brainchild of Asian artist Vong Phaophanit, who was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1993.
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Built to be around two-thirds the size of a real house, the artwork has blocks of sandstone arranged at differing heights inside it which mark the position where internal doors would be located in an original house.
The 370,000 feature was funded by the National Lottery, various arts organisations, private sponsorship and Liverpool Housing Action Trust.
Outhouse has been ‘given over’ to the community, with a number of events taking place around the structure since its construction as part of the ‘Outhouse Programming Group’. This includes community events from laying poppy wreaths on Remembrance Sunday, to contemporary music performances.
A description of Outhouse on the artists' website said: "The usual private nature of the domestic interior becomes open and social, but is still contained and protected. Outhouse is but few steps away from one of Liverpool’s arterial routes in and out of the city, yet maintains a certain air of composure, or non-compliance with the dynamics of the road.
"Outhouse stimulates a need for congregation outside the institutionalised forms of community familiar to most people."
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