Architectural Design V-IX: Borderline(s) Investigation #3 Quickness (A. Theriot)

Abstract

We aim to seize economic requirements to transform constraints into levers, producers of qualities. These may well be tangible or intangible, prosaic or poetic, constant or unstable, general or occasional… as long as they are initiated by the economy and located far from any rationality -creating generosity, “excesses” that make strength and uniqueness of a place.

Objective

It all starts with a question. We are not looking for an answer, we are looking for a way to formulate it. The question is in itself a quest. To carry out this investigation, we walk on a ridge line, we put ourselves in danger, we take risks; we want to find what we are looking for. We are moving forward on a path, on the path of defining the great values - those of architecture but also those of the architect, those of everyday life, those that make it exceptional, those of the ordinary and those of imagination, those of yesterday and today, those of tomorrow’s world. This line on which we walk is the frontier of our discipline, which we test, which we extend, which we do not limit ourselves to. So we go elsewhere, we use all kinds of media, we use all kinds of tools, we call on all kinds of experts, on all kinds of scales... By flirting with the limits in this way, we find ourselves no longer being only an architect but also a photographer, a filmmaker, a sociologist, an engineer, an artist, a philosopher, a playwright, a writer or a poet... We do not prioritise things other than by the subjective value we give them.

Content

CHAP 1: MYTHOLOGY At the beginning there is a myth, a reference project generating a narrative. The production of models, analytic drawings, photographs and fragments will support this narrative which ought to be subjective, personal and intuitive. The result of this research will be presented as a compilation of images: the “Mythology” of architectural quickness. CHAP 2: FINDING FREEDOMS We aim to seize economic requirements to transform constraints into levers, producers of qualities. These may well be tangible or intangible, prosaic or poetic, constant or unstable, general or occasional… as long as they are initiated by the economy and located far from any rationality -creating generosity, “excesses” that make strength and uniqueness of a place. CHAP 3: MOCK UP The mock-up is no longer a model, but neither is it yet the building. It is an abstraction and a hybrid device that suggests the building, but is also formally independent from it. It can be seen as an objet d’art, a temporary installation. Including the following workshops: Fragments and abstraction, photography, 3D visualisations, structure, façade and enveloppe.

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