2022
Versailles, France
BAP! curated by Nicolas Dorval Bory and Guillaume Ramilien.
Project in collaboration with Raphael Kadid, Perron et Freres and Albane Gayet.
When it comes to the physicality of our built environment, the notion of solidity is commonly associated with that of architectural quality. Solid, hard, robust - these are the properties culturally associated with quality construction in our contemporary society. If, in the past, the solidity of the built environment was the result of the use of local materials and know-how, today we cannot ignore the fact that our cities are often produced by assembling standardized products disconnected from any territorial and environmental reality.
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. The notion of resilient interfaces seemed obvious to us as a way of qualifying the multiple properties of a secular material at the heart of this architecture : textile. 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.