Anne Branchereau : Kypseli Theater
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Ouest axonometry
North axonometry
East axonometry
South axonometry
Territorial section
Ground floor plan
Ground floor plan
Ground floor plan
Ground floor plan
Ground floor plan
First floor
Second floor
Third floor
Fourth floor
Project axonometry
Project axonometry
Project axonometry
Project axonometry
Project axonometry
Project axonometry
Project axonometry
Project axonometry
Project axonometry
Project axonometry
Project axonometry
Project axonometry
Project axonometry
Section axonometry
Perspective section
North facade
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East facade
South facade
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West facade
Facade detail
Facade detail
View of the main entrance
View from the north terrace
View from the first balcony of the interior hall of the theater
View of the south terrace from the entrance area
View of the stage on a performance night
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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.