Éav&t – pfe 2021 : Architecture & Experience
AthensAbout
Sarah Rodriguez : Student agora
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Satellite view
Site plan
Plot plan
Axonometric view
Axonometric view
Axonometric view
Axonometric view
Site section
Plan - Ground floor
Plan - Ground floor
Plan - First floor
Plan - First floor mezzanine
Plan - Second floor
Plan - Second floor mezzanine
Plan - Third floor
Plan - Third floor mezzanine
Plan - Fourth floor
Plan - Fifth floor
Plan - Roof
Plans
Axonometry - Site
Axonometry - Ground floor
Axonometry - Mezzanines
Axonometry - First floor
Axonometry - Second floor
Axonometry - Third floor
Axonometry - Fourth floor
Axonometry - Roof
Axonometry
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Perspective section
Elevation - South East
Elevation - South East
Elevation - South West
Elevation - South West
Elevation detail - South West
Elevation - North West
Elevation - North East
Elevation detail - North East
Materiality
North entrance
Second floor - Free space and exhibition
First floor- Mezzanine
Second floor - Small 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.