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ARCHILAB 2001 : " to live " today;

More than 90 Architecte S was invited to present their projects at the time of this third international meeting of Architecture. This demonstration joins together the Architecte S of the whole world for which the multifamily apartment or individual is also the occasion to think of new conceptual strategies. Vis-a-vis an increasing standardization in the construction and of the modes of dwelling in perpetual change, the challenge of the originator is to adapt to one time in constant renewal. The means of communication involved a setting in light of cultural diversities but on another side the processes of industrialization developed a standardization of construction.

The projects are gathered in order to represent various attitudes vis-a-vis the question of housing.

To individualize the collective habitat
Flexibility
To create the landscape
New lifestyles
Subversion
Form and Creative process

This article stopped on this last topic is touched with a recurring question of the Architecture: the Geometry.

In the Wu House, Preston Scott Cohen gives to the inhabitant a vision interior of the result of its geometrical transformations. The Architecte defines the space of the movements of that which traverses it. The process of transformation is accessible only on paper but the images show nevertheless that these forms are solidifying at a given time of an evolution of its research.

Its step is based on the descriptive geometry of the XVIIe century but it diverts its usual application by oblique projections. The prospect is also a projection which enables us to see certain forms. Simple volumes that one is accustomed to see thus appear us in different forms. This step is in agreement with new technologies of data-processing modeling. Calculations are fast, even canned and the passage 2D-3D is a simplified function of a program. After the geometry was used primarily for technical needs especially for a peak period during the industrialization of the occident, it finds its independent statute here and seeks a certain harmony. It is not any more one tool which facilitates the drawing of machine elements. This released use of a technical preoccupation with a representation thus recreates a bond with certain periods of the history like the ancient Greece or with other cultures like the China Ming.

In the case of the Wu House the curved layouts are the cylindrical intersections of volumes. Spaces are the print in three dimensions of the geometrical operations. The dynamism of the lines reflects a will of design far from the preset esthetic rules.

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