After Rudy Ricciotti, Patrick Bouchain, Lacaton and Vassal,
Luca Merlini and Lefèvre and Aubert, the villa Noailles
pursues its exploration of universe of committed
architects. From February 14th till March 28th, 2010, will
be presented the projects and the realizations of two
teams of architects: the TYIN association created by two
young Norwegian architects, Andréas Grontveld Gjertsen
and Yashar Hanstad, and those of German architect Anna
Heringer. "Build somewhere else", explains curator
Florence Sarano, "because this exhibition
shows projects conceived by people here, in
Europe, for people over there, in Africa or in Asia.
Over there, where the term shelter takes back its first
sense: in Africa and in Asia, with the students Norwegian
architects of TYIN, who created a humanitarian
organization to build houses of orphan teenagers, libraries
of village and public baths, with the
local population and within environmental protection
conditions.
In Africa and in Bengladesh, with a young German
architect, who has reinterpreted the ancients
constructiv systems".
Conceived as the photo
report of these "architectural adventures", the exhibition
presents
numerous images of
everyday life of the projects: since the stage of the
construction where teams of architects and the inhabitants
are
combined around the implementation of the work which
they imagined until the moment of the appropriation by the
occupants.
These testimonies in three step are different invitations to
share the architects’ commitment.
The moments arrested on photos taken during the
construction site demonstrate the importance
to built together and share knowledges: the meeting with
the soldier his rifle in the shoulder, the children who find
a soothing situation by participating, the precise gesture of
the villagers braiding bamboo, the hands of the women
making walls in earth and later on, young pupils coiled in
the thickness of the same wall.
But there is also the students’ energy, and the minimal
conditions of transport and shelter within they realize
these
projects.
Once the realization ended, it takes its place in these wild
landscapes playing, for example, with
the forest like the echo of building materials with those of
the site, as in the North of the Thailand. Photos show
these agreements between the natural environment (the
color of the sky, the humidity of the air, the material of
the
earth, outstrips it with the ground for the evacuation of the
water of monsoons, the shadows of the sun) and the
building.
The time of the appropriation of the henceforth ended
constructions is seized by the photography
as a play which becomes established very fast between the
occupants and their new space. The practices get
organized around the custom of the shelter against the sun
or the rain, offered by the architects who also wished
to keep the contact with the outside protected by the the
wooden walls made with fences or with the space
underneath roofs. Other sets take place at the time of
reading in the wall in African earth or suspended in the
Thai
bamboo.
Pictures from above:
1, 2:
TYIN,
library, community hall "Safe Haven". Photo © Pasi
Aalto
3, 4: TYIN, orphelinat "Soe Ker Tie". Photo ©
Pasi Aalto
5: Anna Heringer, "HOMEmade Family
Houses". Photo © Kurt Hoerbst
6: Anna Heringer,
"Living Tebogo", house for handicapped children. Photo ©
Sabine Gretner
7: Anna Heringer, "Handmade
School".
Photo © Kurt Hoerbst
8: Anna Heringer, training
center
for electricians. Photo © Kurt Hoerbst
TYIN + Anna Heringer at Villa Noailles
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- Elena Sommariva
- 11 March 2010