Éav&t – pfe 2021 : Architecture & Experience
AthensAbout
Camille Perrillat-Charlaz : Athens Independent Film Studios
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Site plan - Technopolis district
Site plan - Technopolis district
Site axonometry - West
Site axonometry - South
Site axonometry - East
Site axonometry - North
Site axonometry - West
Territorial section - Urban fragments
Ground floor plan
Ground floor plan
First floor
Second floor
Third floor
Studio 1
Studio 2
Decor workshop
Atlas of plans
Land plot
Decor workshop - Work stations
Decor workshop - Alveolar beams & elevator
Decor workshop
Studio 2 - Film set & bar
Studio 2 - Film set & relaxing room
Studio 2 - Technical bridges
Studio 2 - Steel box structure
Studio 2
Studio 1 - Film set & storage
Studio 1 - Technical grid
Studio 1 - Beams under tension
The three boxes
Axonometric view
Axonometric cut view
Perspective section - Film set & amenities
Longitudinal section - Decor workshop & Studio 2
Cross section - Decor workshop
East elevation - Technical dimension
North elevation - Residential dimension
Detail - Opaque plywood box
Difference and repetition of plywood
View from the main road
View from the street
Handcrafted decorations space
A set production work station
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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.