Éav&t – pfe 2021 : Architecture & Experience
AthensAbout
Victor Payen : Musical residency
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Situation plan
Situation plan
Situation plan
Site axonometry
Site axonometry
Site axonometry
Site axonometry
Site axonometry
Cross section
Ground floor plan
First floor
Sencond and third floor
Fourth floor
Fifth floor
Sixth floor
Atlas
Project axonometry
Project axonometry
Project axonometry
Project axonometry
Project axonometry
Project axonometry
Project axonometry
Project axonometry
Perspective section
Perspective section by night
Cross section
Elevation
Detailed cross section
Detailed cross section by night
Materiality Panel
Exterior view
A view from the scene
Recording session
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According to John Cage, “an experimental action” is one “the outcome of which is not foreseen.” Titling this course Architecture & Experience celebrates on the one hand its attachment to the question of high architecture as a discipline forged in historical and theoretical projects and, on the other, the experimental nature of an explorative approach that has been an operative concept of said discipline ever since the Renaissance – explorative, but still grounded in concrete reality.

Theory, by identifying the working principles defining architectonic forms along time, makes possible every kind of parallel while transforming every sort of question into potential architectural problematics. This is our main field of exploration.

Theory allows us to write the narrative that defines the rules of the project on the one hand and give it a mean on the other hand. Reason helps us to imagine narratives that, considering the rules of nature and reality, allow us to justify from a rational point of view disposals that would be irrational in a different conceptual context. Thus we can succeed in building dreams from the ordinary condition.

Athens is a condensator of the most glorious Antique European architecture and of the almost non planned urban forms of today that makes of it a laboratory for exploring the contemporary status of architecture and city. As usual, students have not traveled to Athens, to work more from the imaginary of the city than from its reality.