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Architecture turns all fantastical in David Trautrimas's Habitat Machines series - and it's a convoluted process. The Toronto-based photographer trawls through junk shops and antique stalls to find careworn domestic objects from days gone by (such as coffee pots, food mixers, hole punches and vacuum cleaners), only to dismantle them when he gets home. However, by reassembling their composite parts, playing with their scale and context, and indulging in some clever collage work, he then reincarnates them as residential buildings. Although they're not exactly ergonomic and - of course - not real, Trautrimas's home-made houses (such as Oil Can Residence, 2008, above) certainly do look the business: futuristic yet retro, industrial yet friendly, alien yet familiar.