Paysages en Exil / Nicolas Dorval-Bory + Raphaël Bétillon
The national cultural event, Imaginez Maintenant, features work of young multidisciplinary designers (all under the age of 30) in nine French cities. Finding inspiration in Gilles Clément’s description of “wandering plants phenomenon,” Nicolas Dorval-Bory and Raphaël Bétillon’s selected project creates an experimental journey, inviting visitors to explore an unlikely landscape. Open from July 1st through the 4th, the project consists of an artificial cloud, a long greenhouse and thousand of seedlings which will rest on the banks of the Garonne, next to the Hospital of La Grave.
More about the installation after the break.
The journey through this new landscape begins at the greenhouse, a 50m long space which includes a sampling of seedlings from the 5 continents ” as a reference to the wandering plants and to the curing function of the hospital.”
Garden
In this bright tunnel, visitors choose one of the 2000 plants to take with them on their journey. With seeds in hand, visitors penetrate a thick cloud formed from a dense mist from the spraying of the Garonne river through 1000 nozzles (installed by French company Dutrie, one the offices who carried out DS + R’s Blur Building). The cloud provides an eerie, distorting surrounding that will change colors in the night as it blankets the river.
Night View Rose Cloud
The 100 m long cloud experience allows the visitor to become a part of an abstract, disconcerting humid environment and upon reaching the end, a luscious garden beckons the visitior to plant his selected seedling.
The installation deals with ideas such as invisible landscapes and climatic distortion, combining them into a sensory experience that will surely captivate visitors.
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- Site Plan
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- Entrance
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- Interior
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- Garden
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- Details
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- Axonometric
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- Night View
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- Night View Rose Cloud
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- Night View Orange Cloud
Project name: AYSAGES EN EXIL
City, Country: Toulouse, France
Team: Nicolas Dorval-Bory, Raphaël Bétillon, Paula Gonzalez Balcarce
Status of project: Selected project, under construction, opening 1st of july 2010
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Smoky actually escaped the island ! they show the wrong ending.
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Yeah, Photoshop is cool.
Your Architecture is not.
Sorry.
Justifing your comments would lend your some credence!
This project show us the way architecture is moving, over its physical and concrete limits, to an atmospheric space, . Evolutive, fast, interactive, such project is contibuiting to design spaces in a new way. Today we see how much the eco friendly buildings we are designning now are constrained by their heavy envelope and limited. This atmospheric architecture is not, it’s an environment itself, interacting within an evolutive context, powering its possibilities to develop and adapt itself. Lets think about a variable size building, with no doors or windows but interactive walls.
If this modest project only introduces this concept, i truly think greater ones (by Dorval-Bory & Bétillon or others) will continue to develop it, bringing us to new ways of thinking and living architecture.