Author: Alexandre Gonzalez
Y5_Master Projects
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2018/19 YEAR 1
BECOMING LEMAN >> access Y1_Becoming Leman BLOG >> download Y1_Becoming Leman PROGRAM Le semestre se concentre sur l’acquisition des outils de la recherche et à la fabrication de l’architecture, à travers des confrontations avec des questions spatiales. Par ces confrontations, les étudiants se familiariseront avec l’espace, le site, et les relations de ceux-ci à leur (…)
2018/19 BLOG
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LA PLACE COSANDEY
La Place Cosandey est un lieu de vie. C’est une grande surface où peuvent se produire de multiples évènements, formellement ou de manière plus inattendue. C’est un vide qui vient souligner la beauté du paysage, qui ramène les abords du lac au seuil de l’EPFL, mais qui est aussi un espace capable de rassembler les (…)
PROTOSTRUCTURES
Agathe Mignon Archéologie et hypothèse d’une architecture-support « How do we pile up dwellings without sacrificing their independence ? » (1) Nicolaas John Habraken pose la question en ces termes dans l’ouvrage qu’il publie d’abord en 1961 en néerlandais puis en anglais en 1972, Supports : An Alternative to Mass Housing, en introduction des travaux de recherche qu’il effectue (…)
NINA
The wonderful Legacy of the Montreux Jazz Festival hits the road with “Nina”. This compact gateway to a vast universe is about to set off — “Nina”, the latest installation by the EPFL+ECAL Lab developed in cooperation with the space conception laboratory ALICE, brings the iconic concerts of the Montreux Jazz Festival back to life. (…)
HOUSE SERIES
The ALICE HOUSE series originate from the research projects ‘protostructure’ and the concepts of ‘adapted scaffolding’, including a PhD (Agathe Mignon, 2013–2018), several teaching formats, and diverse case studies in large-group design and build processes. It consists of a series of building-size installations, parallel cultural and scientific events, framed by exhibitions and publications. The HOUSE (…)
PROTOFIGURATION
Julien Lafontaine-Carboni The term prefiguration was first formally defined by Boggs (1977) as ‘the embodiment, within the ongoing political practice of a movement, of those forms of social relations, decision-making, culture, and human experience that are the ultimate goal’. Rooted in the Americans’ radical left, prefiguration is a different kind of theory, a “direct theory” (…)
AASIII AT ODDS ENDS ART BOOK FAIR, YALE
AASIII was present at Odds and Ends Art Book Fair on the 7th of December inside Kahn’s beautiful Art Gallery in Yale. credits photograph © Scott Vander Zee, Hubertus Design design Hubertus design
FINAL PRESENTATIONS FIRST SEMESTER PLANES/GARDENS – Y1 BECOMING LEMAN
03.12.2018 The final presentations for the first semester of YEAR 1 Becoming Leman took place last Monday 3rd of december inside the studios, EPFL where students presented the work of the phases Planes and Gardens they had been working on from Week 7-Week 12 of the Y1 ALICE program. Invited guests were Emmanuelle Agustoni, Mélusine Le Brun, Philipp Burst, (…)