Montpellier - Festival Des Architectures Vives
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This arched tunnel was made from empty plastic water jugs.
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Showcase
What is the secret of beauty? For some people, the origin of beauty lays in nature itself. “Showcase” looks into the microscope scale of nature, using the butterfly and dragonfly as paradigm of beauty. The symmetry, the colors and proportions, the harmony of the waving moves and the fragility of the wings make them some of the most graceful creatures.
Nevertheless, beauty does not last forever. It is ephemeral. And in a failed attempt to control it, humans decide to imprison it, freeze it, turning it into a showcase object. The insects, over-scaled and out of context, float framed by the courtyard, as if it was on a science catalogue.
This installation invites the public to also look around and find beauty on the nature that surrounds them. It brings color sifted light to the courtyard creating a new perception of the space and a new way to look at nature.
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Showcase
Manifold / Corps et Cadre
Beauty can be interpreted as the uncanny, the alien made subtly familiar. Our proposal explores this idea by creating an experience that mediates between contrasts: a non-Cartesian geometry in an orthogonal courtyard and the perceptual continuity of a vanishing plane. With layers of translucency and visual artifices of alignment, the installation reveals the constant transformation of a surface that meanders through space. It interweaves multiple colored lines into a single fluid polychromatic construct. Visitors experience this as a continuous boundary, recognizing it to be separated surfaces when in the middle of the courtyard or seeing the blurred forms of other visitors. Using the existing doorways and apertures as endpoints, the installation reasserts the courtyard as a collective space by choreographing new ways of moving and facilitating meetings at different intimacies, whether the space is tight or expansive. Two spaces are framed, one familiar, and the other veiled, amorphous, alien and mysterious.
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Sel sur cours
By leaving a simple piece of wood into the shallows of the shalt marshes, it will be found several months later covered by salt crystals. This extraordinary metamorphosis offers us the possibility to make visible plastic chacharacteristics which had been disregarded so far.
The beauty of Montpellier’s hôtels particuliers courtyards is victim of the ruthless erosion of their daily experiences. Free from any regard, this beautiful space is a transition area, an ornemental void into the heart of the building. Through the crystallization process, the beauty rises when the common characteristics become extraordinary again. In June 2019, the courtyard will welcome her duplicate as an artpiece. Crystallized into the Camargue salt, this second courtyard will make the praise of the territorial and architectural heritage of Montpellier’s areas. Through the Festival, the project’s structure will gradually let go the dense accumulation of crystals around the thin iron sticks, and leave to the Lunas court a model of its facade, as the witness of a faded beauty, once alive and radiant.
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Sel sur cours
Le Papillon D’Or
Papillon D’Or is a sculptural parametric installation taking inspiration from the suspended movement in air of a butterfly. The installation represents the team’s personal interpretation of the theme of beauty, concentrating on an abstraction of the butterfly — a symbol of freedom, ephemerality, beauty — and aspects of lightness, colour and the use of light. This temporary installation has been designed with the intention to instigate childlike excitement, by making use of golden dichroic, holographic mirror vinyl, which will refract light and offering visitors various experiences of the installation in relation to different view points. Through the juxtaposition between a modern, computational design and the historic courtyard site, a tension is generated, transforming and redefining the space and the generated spatial impressions of visitors through the use of light and shadow. Both the design and fabrication processes are driven by computational tools: the Papillon D’Or, made out of PET and vinyl components is based on a minimal surface, which has been reparametrized and algorithmically optimized and panelized.
For more: http://festivaldesarchitecturesvives.com/LE-PAPILLON-DOR
Le Papillon D’Or
Beauté Locale
Step in a courtyard from Montpellier and feel immersed in a Portuguese landscape : This is the experience that the installation wants to offer. The azulejo give a new blue shade to the courtyard and bring the memory to an another place. Beauty takes shape when two heritages meet. This space creates an hybrid landscape which brings us far away. The repetition of a same clay tile creates a global homogeneous space. The composition of the existing facades works as a base for the design of the installation. Working with transparence, these mural frescoes overlay the courtyard as an added layer. Under this barocos apparence, the azulejo reveals a new approach to ornementation in architecture. Generally perceived as unnecessary, this ornementation becomes the main material of the installation. The story told on these murals appears slowly by moving around the courtyard, allowing to travel through contemplation.
For more: http://festivaldesarchitecturesvives.com/BEAUTE-LOCALE
NO Fish
"NOfish" is intended as an echo of "Goldfish," an installation for the Festival des Architectures Vives in 2015. If “Goldfish” was a counterpoint to the theme of the tenth festival, celebrating the time that remains rather than the time that passes, NOfish is also a couterpoint, not expressing beauty but its disappearance.
With plastic’s vast pollution of the oceans as the focus, the installation conjures an Épinal print of an autopsied fish, whose stomach is filled with plastic waste. In the installation, marine life is displayed through a giant gold paper origami fish, swimming in a thousand balls of black plastic. Here the fish gives us back the "gift" we forced on it: it dumps a sea of plastic into the courtyard. Whether an oil accident or polluted plastics (which are ultimately the same products in different forms), the installation expresses beauty and wealth, which are undermined by human activity.
For more: http://festivaldesarchitecturesvives.com/NOfish
NO Fish
Arborescence digitale
DIGITAL ARBORESCENCE is a reflection on the evolution of natural beauty. It’s an aesthetic experience focused not on the object itself but on the effects that the object produces on the user, on the relations between the qualities of the environment and human states… in essence, the focus is on a kind of beauty characterized by its biophilic awareness where the classic aesthetics of judgement leaves room for natural sensuality.
We propose an interactive mechanism that disrupts the usual perception of the patio and establishes a new relationship between body and space. In much the same way that a breathing movement takes place, users will activate 50 iridescent petals causing variations in shades, reflections, transparencies and geometries in a contraction and relaxation motion.
Understanding ephemeral effects as a stepping stone towards a contemporary biophilic awareness; that’s what digital arborescence is all about.
For more: http://festivaldesarchitecturesvives.com/ARBORESCENCE-DIGITALE
Arborescence digitale
Everybody is Beautiful
This proposal celebrates each and every person: the pastry chef putting croissants in the oven, the hotel worker folding the linens, the student doing the homework, the pensioner planting flowers—each of you is beautiful. Despite differences such as age, gender, color, and origin, each person is beautiful because of bringing unique talents to the community and contributing to the prosperity of the society. Situated in the Hôtel Baudon de Mauny courtyard, this installation features abstract cut-out silhouettes of people on clear vinyl. The iridescent film cut-outs—changing their color depending on the lighting and view angle—refer to the varying perception of others, the clear vinyl to the purity and beauty of human spirit. The abstract silhouettes suggest that what matters is not one’s appearance but the person character.
Beauty knows no age, gender, color, and origin. Everybody is beautiful.
For more: http://festivaldesarchitecturesvives.com/EVERYBODY-IS-BEAUTIFUL
Notre Nid
The beauty is here depicted through the aspect of trend. The trend is defined and modified by the population. Thus, the visitor is invited to build the installation according to his personal aesthetic appreciation, the sum therefore inducing the trend. By shifting their traditional use, tens of thousands of cloth pegs put up together generate the installation, built by the visitors. Because of its playful, participative and evolutionary aspect, the installation does not have an absolute state. Each person experiences the installation in a unique way and shapes the beauty in a temporality, inducing a personal symbolic value of elegance to simple clothes pegs.
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Notre Nid
Notre Nid
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