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| Workshop at the Salines Royales d'Arc et Senans with Kinya Maruyama, spring 2002. |
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| -The
salines Royales : The salt works was a royal factory created
to produce salt and designed by Claude Nicolas Ledoux under the reign
of Louis XV. The Salines are located in the Doubs next to the forest
of Chaux (30km/15km)
because of the great energy from the wood.The wood was needed to evaporate
the water and keep the salt from it. So the forest and the Salines are
deeply linked. |
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| -Kinya
Maruyama : A japanese architect from the "Team Zoo"
collective came with 15 of his students from Japan, Italy and England.
Kinya Maruyama previously worked on the "Lieu Unique" in Nantes
in 2001. |
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| -The
project :After
the project of the century's pavilion (cosmos
and infinite for me), the Salines think of us to make this workshop
and to bring some fresh wood in the place. The idea was to make 6 wood
constructions between the building of the half circle.
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| Our
team was composed of 4 french students, 2 Japanese and a mexican Erasmus
student. After a 3 days at the Salines, the week of conception took place in Grenoble. We started to make models with materials from the forest and draw sketches of it "from the point of view of the insect" as Kinya said. |
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Kinya
proposed an interesting working method, we had to make the models turning
in the group, each student had to continue and evolve the model/sketches
of another. After many rounds, we realized we were all interesting in
the vibration of wood as well as the frequencies of it. In a way it
was pretty close to the evocation of music from and in the woods... |
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| So we worked on densification and compression to express the feeling of a whole forest or the presence of the music. And variations on the theme ... | ||||
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| After presenting the projects to the Salines Royales, we realized that only 3 projects could be built, mainly because of the short time to get the wood and to build the structures. our project have been selected but we had to change the site for an equilibrium preoccupation. (the Salines are really symmetric). So we moved to one of the garden which also permit to reduce the considerable amount of wood. | ||||
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