Tip of the iceberg

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/06/healthy-soil-microbes-healthy-people/276710/

“D'un amas de pierres peuvent surgir soit des fondations, soit des ruines.” (Valeriu Butulescu, Aphorismes)

MEASURES, Evian, October 2019

Following the track of our colleagues who accomplished the 2018/2019 Becoming Leman project, our task was to work on the project foundations, at the same time the most prominent element of any structure but also the one we tend to forget about. Considering our case for instance, the foundations were indeed the unique part not referenced beforehand. The first stage was thus to dig up one foundation per pair in order to study it. The obviousness emerging after a few instants of digging with a shovel was that, the base being suddenly overdrawn, the structure was moving, losing its initial stability. 

Instability of the structure once the foundation dug up, Evian

MEASURES, process on site (Evian)

"My feet are spreading the topsoil around and my hands are gathering leaves until the intensity of the rain decreases."

ubiquity of humidity, runoff of rain, course of the water, measuring meticulously every single curvature, mixing of water, soil & plaster, watching ones-selves backs by shielding the moulding, discovering the final result in the sunlight 

MEASURES, process in studio

"S’emparer de la «donnée complexe, confuse, parfois même insaisissable» pour la «projeter» (un terme qui appartient au vocabulaire architectural) dans la sphère de la réalité abstraite qui n’est plus, certes, le monde des idées platoniciennes, mais celui, «grapho-numérique» de la grille. Une telle opération ne se contente pas de déplacer l’objet concret, elle le transfigure : Au terme de l’opération, nous obtenons plus que l’équivalent de la chose : son image allégée, débarrassée des accidents et susceptible d’une évaluation." 

ALICE Codex Measures, p.10

Technical drawing, Monge and a serie of coupes of the plaster model brought back from Evian, Orianne von Flüe

Technical drawing, axonometry of the first plaster, Raphaël Perrin

Technical drawing, Monge and cut perspective of the entire void & axonometry of the void within the initial structure, Orianne von Flüe

Fusion of architecture & nature
Plaster model moulded on site (L)
Fusion vase, Ferréol Babin, stone & aluminium, http://leibal.com/products/fusion-vase-3/?utm_medium=Social&utm (R)

 Mould of the entire interstice, Raphaël Perrin & Orianne von Flüe

Moulding of that same interstice, Raphaël Perrin & Orianne von Flüe

Time lapse of the hybrid mould construction, material : clay, Raphaël Perrin & Orianne von Flüe

Hybrid mould, in motion, cracking, material : clay, Raphaël Perrin & Orianne von Flüe
Rift, Michael Heizer, 1968, Land art, https://nfafcblog.tumblr.com/post/76161087069/michael-heizer-rift-the-transformative-powers-of (M)

First plaster mould of the void, Raphaël Perrin & Orianne von Flüe

Hybrid plaster mould of the void, Raphaël Perrin & Orianne von Flüe

MEASURES, a recycling strategy

Leftover of our pathway in Evian : a large quantity of wooden sticks and a bunch of unstructured holes, once the foundations dug up. 

Hence, a consistent scenario of destruction would be to recycle the wooden sticks as we usually use trees for : making paper or wood chips. Bearing in mind we still need to fill the holes of the digging, making wood chips out of the sticks seems to remain the best recycling option, thereby creating a clean and neat site.

Metamorphosis of the wooden sticks

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https://www.gettyimages.fr/photos/copeaux-de-bois?excludenudity=false&license=rf&family=creative&phrase=copeaux%20de%20bois&sort=best

http://throughthelensdarkly.com/trips/excursions/20071006/index.html

To what extend could weather conditions interfere, even obstruct measures?