Critics will take place in two weeks, as the end of the year is arriving a little faster than expected.
Today some more studios began to build their project, thus bringing new energy and motivation to
everyone. Next week is the charrette, during which everyone will take care of the last details.
Aloys Mützenberg
As the first construction phase gets to its end, it is now time to take a few steps back, to try and see
what has yet been done, and what is coming next.
It is now clear that the half abstract half concrete condition given by the protostructure is definitely
ambiguous. However it is progressively filling up with studio projects inhabiting it, which operate shifts
of perspective.
The House is densifying and becomes more concrete, more tangible. As the projects take place inside
the protostructure, the abstract features are drawn into it, as part of the Rooms. These which seemed
more concrete than the protostructure because of the program they propose, are now the abstract
part of the whole as their program is conceptual.
Anyway, all of this is bringing light to the etymology of the word protostructure (proto = anterior) : a
host structure, something inhabited, transformed by new objects.
Photography : Raphaëlle Garin, Louis Conforti, Aloys Mützenberg, Selen Karakoc
Editing : Aloys Mützenberg, Pedro Maiurano
It is now been one week that the first project pieces have been put in the protostructure, and since
we expect things to go faster from now on, a special team has been formed to work in the upper
levels of the structure. They have worked hard in order to organize access and security in some zones,
in which a temporary floor has been put. In the mean time, five studios are advancing with their
projects.
Photography : Aloys Mützenberg, Paul Castella
Editing : Aloys Mützenberg
