Éav&t – pfe 2021 : Architecture & Experience
AthensAbout
Myriam Berthier : Wanderland
  • Slideshow
  • Mosaic
Existing site
Implantation
Implantation
Mass plan
Territorial section
Site axonometry - south west
Site axonometry - north west
Site axonometry - south east
Site axonometry - north east
Site axonometry - south west
1st Floor plan
2nd Floor plan
3rd Floor plan
4th Floor plan
5th Floor plan
Roof plan
Atlas of plan
1st courtyard section
2nd courtyard section
3rd courtyard section
Longitudinal section
Existing site
Building footprint
Building footprint
The courtyards digging the volume
Colors of the three courtyards
Construction
Construction
Construction
Construction
Construction
Roof
Axonometry
Axonometry
Axonometry section on one side
Axonometry section but look at the other
Perspective section
South-east elevation
South-east elevation with shutters
South-east elevation and detail
South-east elevation and shutters
Metal beam linked to concrete block wall
North-west elevation
North-west elevation with shutters
North-west elevation and detail
North-west elevation and shutters
Courtyards pavement
Pavement madness
Welcome to the cultural wanderland !
or wonderland ?
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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.