2022
Versailles, France
BAP! curated by Nicolas Dorval Bory and Guillaume Ramilien.
Project in collaboration with Raphael Kadid, Perron et Freres and Albane Gayet.
Over the centuries, nomadic peoples have developed a pragmatic and highly technical form of architecture, which has had to rely on economy of means to be transportable and therefore viable. Both a spatial boundary and a climate regulator, the textile interface protects against wind, rain and sun, retains heat or coolness, and defines spaces and their privacy.
The project takes the form of a square pavilion in the Maréchalerie courtyard. Comprising a platform and four triangular porticos, the pavilion's structure tensions a textile interface. The side walls, free to move with the visitor's hand, define the pavilion's spatiality, accesses and views to the exterior. The textile interface is y structural, spatial, climatic, kinetic, reusable and resilient.