Architectural Design V-IX: Borderline(s) Investigation #4 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 the strength and uniqueness of a place.

Objective

"Quickness is a medium, an environment. We don't only inhabit the surface of the Earth, we inhabit quickness." Paul Virilio 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

"Quickness of style and thought means above all agility, mobility, and ease, all qualities that go with writing where it is natural to digress, to jump from one subject to another, to lose the thread a hundred times and find it again after a hundred more twists and turns." Italo Calvino CHAP 1: MYTHOLOGY CHAP 2: FINDING FREEDOMS CHAP 3: BINDING FRAGMENTS Mandatory workshop with Johannes Schwarz: 5-6.10.2020 Workshops: Fragments and abstraction with Karsten Födinger 3D visualisations with Olivier Campagne Structure with Enrique Lluis Façade and enveloppe with Arnaud Malras Conference cycle: #01 Can we have tomatoes for Christmas dinner this year ? #02 Can I have your passport and boarding pass please ? #03 Does vacation near the ocean can fit in a box ? #04 How to touch the invisible ? #05 Is it possible to put a house in a plane ?

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