Éav&t – pfe 2021 : Architecture & Experience
AthensAbout
Alessandro Nicolai : Art and performing school in Kallithea
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Site Plan
Site Plan
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Site Plan
Site Axonometry-West
Site Axonometry-South
Site Axonometry-East
Site Axonometry-North
Site Axonometry-West
Site section
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Ground floor plan
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First floor
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Second floor
Third floor
Atlas of plans
Land plot
Evolutive axonometry
Evolutive axonometry
Evolutive axonometry
Evolutive axonometry
Evolutive axonometry
Evolutive axonometry
Evolutive axonometry
Evolutive axonometry
Evolutive axonometry
Evolutive axonometry
Evolutive axonometry
Evolutive axonometry
Axonometric view
Axonometric cut view
Perspective section
North elevation
East elevation
Detail
Raw still life
View from the garden
View from the street
Secondary workshop
Main workshop
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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.