Éav&t – pfe 2021 : Architecture & Experience
AthensAbout
Flore Daurel : Craftsmen haven
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Aerial View
Situation Plan
Roof Plan
South-East Axonometry
North-East Axonometry
North-West Axonometry
South-West Axonometry
South-East Axonometry
Territorial Section
Roof Plan
Groundfloor Plan
Workshop Plan
Cafeteria Plan
Atlas of Plans
Existing Site
Structural Walls
Furniture Thickness
Partition
Facades
Floor Tiles
Construction Detail
Primary metallic Structure
Secondary wooden Structure
Wooden Cladding
Zinc Cover
Project Axonometry
Cut Axonometry
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Perspective Section
South Elevation View
North Elevation View
East Elevation View and Structural Detail
Materials Layout
Furniture Thickness Axonometry
A glimpse through the existing gate
An art exhibition of the craftsmen work
The central plaza
A pottery workshop
The central plaza
The parc extending
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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.