french pavilion at the 9th biennale international architecture exhibition 2004 .....................................................................................................................
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9th international architecture exhibition in venice, italy, 2004 / french pavilion ‘métamorphoses durables: vivre et habiter autrement’ by marc barani; michel bertreux; olivier brochet; sylvie dugasse, jacques ferrier; isabel hérault; karine herman; philippe madec, guerric péré; jean-christophe quinton; rudy ricciotti; francis soler; annie tardivon; valérie vaudou the ‘durable’ city is one that accepts alterity : the existence of the other, the past, the future, and it allows it to flourish. we can understand or guess the past but the future remains to be explored. any design of the city must take into account this durability, that is, the possibilities of a probable future. the pavillion proposes to demonstrate a method of exploration: a game, its unfolding and its results. this game asked three teams of architects and landscape architects to come up with a project in the very short period of two days, to work directly in model form. they had to work together. take decisions together... and produce an urban planning project - a projected city for 2089. --- back to the biennale participating countries index page --- ------- monthly designboom newsletter ------- ------- ? comments and contact us ? -------	house into, espoo, by jyrki tasa, 1998 villa långbo, kemiö, by olavi koponen, 1994-2000 cafe carbon, helsinki, by niko sirola, 2000