Séquence de montage
Location of constructive details
With Branet Inès, Hennel Claire form studio Wegman and Zanota Armand from studio Treiber
Axonometry
Plan
Section
Elevations of the debate room, as a signal too
Sketches of the debate room
Sketches of the seatings displayed on 3 levels for the theatre, embracing the slope
Collage of the scene
Collage of the House from the last bleacher behind the scene
With Branet Inès, Hennel Claire from studio Wegman and Zanota Armand from studio Treiber
Axonometry of the scenario
Monge of the scenario
Intent text: a day in the house, shifted in fragments of life.
Hannah, 21, blurred times, in transition
I am unfamiliar with this city, I have only been in Geneva for one month. It was a short, moist summer night when I ran across the house. I was drifting along planes, I followed the sound of the river and came to rest on the lower part of the house. Three planes as if they were dancing formed a wide and welcoming cocoon. As open as it was, I felt great. Time passed by, it always does, but with the unchanged burble of the river, I felt I could sty there forever. I felt alive.
Charles, 6, can count up to 60
I discovered this place last holidays. It looked like a giant park; I quickly lost my parents in the jungle. My pace went faster as I found my way out of the labyrinth. Then I arrived in a in a place with a strange roof surround by empty cubes, as if it where all made out of legos. There were a lot of people and in the center two of them were speaking, it was full of grown-ups, I recognized my parents among the crowd and continued my journey. My parents saw me, and followed me in to the theatre. It was a funny theater, it looked like wooden falls. I easily got distracted from the play as the backround was way more appealing. Birds, hundreds of them flied from tree to tree and the junction’s colours changed as the sun got lower. That is the last thing I remember from that day. It was a great adventure.
Juliet, 43, highly determined, no links with her family
I have lived in Geneva for 14 years now and I believe there is a real lack of common ground in this city, for arts, for thoughts. Thus, when I heard of this house near the junction, I immediately wanted to see it. I visited it with some friends, it was an early Tuesday night. An adaptation of La cantatrice chauve was scheduled. We were late, we quickly got to our seats in the theater. The play was nice, the atmosphere reminds me of the genesis of theatre, landscapes, the scene and bleachers. When the play was over we followed the slope and found room to begin a discussion. It was our shelter, and we talked about the necessity or not of sets in the scenography. I won’t unwrap all the plea, yet I thought it was funny that these cubes on the ground created a scenography during our debate, as a mise en abyme.
Research
Collages
Pier collages
Debate collage
Mock-ups
The bleachers, slope dialogue
The labyrinth garden
Bird view, flying speed Human view, walking speed
Sundance
Bird view sequence
It’s 6 pm, We enter the room after a fairly quiet day. We see on our left a high wall that intrigued us then we decide to take a look. Behind this high wall we look at a room that looks very intimate. But we decide to continue on our way, and at this moment we make the discovery of a much larger room. I come down the stairs, but my friend comes down the other stairs. We find ourselves separated by a crossbar. We all put down our affairs, I sit and he stand and we start to debate !
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WEEK 1 : EXPLORATIONS AND FIRST INTENTION
Create a room to contemplate surrounding landscapes, was my first intention.
Located on the top of the protostructure this Room allows to contemplate a panorama of the landscapes like as a piece of art. Moreover, the shift entrance enables to create surprise or astonishment and thus make contemplation more impressive. The Room is divided in three parts : the entrance, a part to get together (with two friends) and the third part, more intimate (just for one person).
I work with disposition of four plans and protostructure, essentially by drawing in a first step, to achieve my thoughts.
Top view drawing (1:10) - elevation 1 (1:10) - elevation 2 (1:10) - Perspective from the interior of space
Axonometry showing the opened space and the intimacy space
WEEK 2 : CONCEPTUAL CLARITY
After some reflexions, I change the main program of my project, considering it "naive" and simple. Indeed, it's not necessary to have a Room in a protostructure to contemplate a landscape, just sit on a bench or on the floor. It's for this reason I decided to change direction.
Trying to keep, in its entirety, the disposition of the plan, I create a space to share, discuss and debate in different ways.
First, a place to come over and discuss, have a friendly and cool discussion with a friend we haven't seen in a long time...This place is surrounding by two large plans to create intimacy. One is oblique to lean on.
The second place is more open, is a place to debate in one-to-one, have a discussion more academic. Then, I lowered the horizontal plan so that the protostructure plays an important role : separation between two people who debate.
Top view (1:20) - Section 1 (1:20) - Section 2 (1:20)
Axonometry 1:20 - view of the intimacy place.
It's time to focus about articulations between plans and protostructure by shape it. Firstly, to test the volumetric I just use cardboard.
Left : Zoom on the intimacy space
Right : Overview (to left from right) - opened space : debate - intimacy space : cool discussion - entrance
WEEK 3-4 : STRUCTURAL THINKING
Now that the idea is clearer, think about structural connexions. I change the original shape of some plans to assemble them with te protostructure.
After round-trips between drawings and models, I discover some challenges. For instance, the fact that the protostructure plays an important role in the debate place, it create in the same time, disturbances in other places. That why I collaborate with an other projet to avoid theses issues.
Top view (1:20 - Incomplete drawing)
Elevations 1-2 (on the top) and sections 1-2 (at the bottom) - (Incomplete drawings)
Construction of the first plan (horizontal) by using a template
Test on the protostructure and structural adjustment
Photographs showing collaboration with an other project and the intimacy place
Photography of the debate place
Construction details - Left : section to show step of construction - Right : axonometry
Axonomtry
WEEK 5-6 : DISCOVERING NEW TOOLS
By learning to use new tools, I continued the project. The model and drawings wasn't finished so I pursued them.
During this part of the project, I've made the different parts accessible by adding some elements : to avoid to step over, go down or up, to sit.
From left to right : South elevation - North elevation - 1:20 (top)
From left to right : West elevation - East elevation - 1:20 (below)
Sections - Top view (1:20)
Perspective - Axonometry
Room in the site
Room among Rooms