A house is the simple topic of this studio. A matter of simple complexity.
The first part of the year is about learning about a house. The second part is about making your own house. Learning about a house is learning about architecture.
AMBITION
Studio jo taillieu - LIF composes with the idea of the reference, your personal frame of reference but also its place within architectural practice. The studio teaches a methodology of composition and constructing architecture based from the small scale, the detail, towards the bigger scale, the whole. It allows to understand how a detail can give qualities to a space as much as a whole constructive system for a whole building.
Observation, contemplation are key rather than analysing. Imagination rather than concept. These attitudes are part of the studio methodology. This studio believes strongly in the variety of media: from handmade drawing, crafted modeling to digital and analog drawings. Medium are not only a result but rather an ongoing method to think, compose and conceive your architectural intervention. Your hand is a tool, an instrument on the table to conceive your vision. A studio where we take your pleasure for architecture seriously.
MOVEMENT I
exercise in duo
LEARNING ABOUT A HOUSE MAKING YOUR OWN HOUSE
The first part of the year is about learning about a house. You will choose one house among a list of references to work on. But then, disaster strikes. A part of the house collapses. What will you do? You are the master of collapsing. Working in pairs, you will reconstruct your own fragment, rebuilding within and among the ruins left by the catastrophe.
It will be a FRAGMENT of the collapsed reference house built by a composition of constructive elements.