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La forme en mouvement | Umberto Napolitano | TEDxESTPParis


good evening so
to ring his father movements
she is
I’m going to bring him on the on a
common search for a long time because
that since we really consider
the architectured the city as forms
movement and it’s almost antithetical
with the very idea of ​​architecture that is
there to be built to stay for
So somewhere endure before
before going into three examples they
are three of our latest experiences
I would like to share with you a kind
of creed and who says from now on
the architect of the city have made
ideas two different things
firstly the stupid city to simulate a
great damn active fans act a
engineering and architectural work
more or less serious more or less
complex and that grows over time
secondly we can refer to
some aspects more limited but
however crucial called urban fact
that like the city itself are
characterized by their history and so
by their shape
what’s up with rossi he says
something quite simple the city
look at the city as an artifact
when something that was built by
men for men with a
very specific form that can be
totally measure scientifically
basically every city has its own shape
each city is approached in a way
extremely scientific resorting
to biometrics fargo the science to the
construction to the technique and as
that architect must know this
part but after the city is also its
own identity and his own identity
is built by what he calls the effect
urban makes them laugh well its history
sociological evolution are all this
who has arrived that exceeds this form
then the architects must be located
on practically these two lines
parallels understand the shape of the
city
understand his evolution his movement
and understand society and take the
bet on the company to come
we do it suddenly through the form
the form is a word that in architecture
is used everywhere
we take the definition of paul klee
which is quite extraordinary
nowhere or never form a
result acquired a completion a
conclusion it should be considered as a
genesis as a movement his being and the
become and form as appearances
is only a malignant apparition there
form is not common things we
appear but the form is the
potential that we are able to give to
things so that they happen to vary
with time that’s the meaning of everything
the first project that I you
montrais is a social housing in
bègles and we were invited for for
these three lots right there was the
potential to build 14 thousand meters
squares we were asked masses of
14 thousand square meters to define
public space
it is the principle of the city
Mediterranean or city
European history , that is to say the
buildings are actually what makes the
street except that it was during the period
of the 2008 crisis where investors
have decided to withdraw and so in
reality could built a 14,000
according to the urban study but in reality we
asked us that 7000 times
had this gray space which is the space
where we could guess something
where we could perhaps have tried a form
in motion and at the time we know
questioned about is what there is a
model that happens to combine the
qualities of the individual house
that is not having neighbors of
keep the four fronts at home
probably a garden a lot
external spacings with its
collective housing share the
resources end up in a
community when we want to and
mostly occupied less soil because he
is fundamental today to
save territory and so we
date is a form by superimposing
practically detached houses
have occupied five square meters in stop at
provision of other 100 m² for power
in the near future
maybe do something this
abstract idea then became a
proposal for the competition to which
participated
is what was proposed in mad peace
because in fact the building was only
seven meters wide each piece is
very triple exposed under the street under the
courtyard and especially his own garden
winter is so triple exposed it wants
say three facades
so that means three times the price
so somewhere and the paradox was
that is to say the lannou compactness of the
building raise its price and as the
price was very tense so it’s
became a real challenge we did it at
to establish a very simple principle
like a parking frame on which
we finally graft
six prefabricated panels that was a
image of contest 2015
the idea being that in 2055 but people
can occupy their own void that he
is which were sold to them at the time of
the sale
so we finally got to that and
everything was done through elements
standardized we did not decide anything on
measure it’s just an assembly
smart two-piece that have been
selected and buy in large numbers
the first occupants arrived and
which was pretty beautiful and blue I had
the opportunity to visit later
the project is actually there is a
kind of movement here the movement
emptied himself by the fact that
people can the young couple come
there he builds in these great spaces
the room for the child or someone
who decides said mathieu cushion ago
truly an evolution that is in
set in place
today in this building but it is
very rare at the same time we had
occasions like that of bègles it’s up to
to say the idea of ​​being able to exploit a vacuum
because we were allowed to build it
while we are now empty
door do you look economical so for
make you understand a second
totally opposite examples of the first
I selected a project we did
in Paris where every square meter of the coa a
huge value since the city is wearing
this value
it’s a project that’s in the
last quarter that was built that
is the district of Batignolles and it is
a small triangle that right that to
horse between the cloth this way and
this city to come when we are
invited to the contest that’s the picture
which was given in the rif it’s
representative of this disc in the process of
produce today in europe it’s a
ecological architecture a city
ecological around a pact when I
look at this picture she evokes me all
except paris and like paris is my city
home and that I’m there
deeply attached we started to
think lambesc sketched paris and
Paris is something quite
extraordinary is the exclusion of a
fabric continuously at 27 meters
almost a mono material of the stone of
size with coins each ornaments
every window that were finally
bought from the catalog between 1850 and
1910 and you know it I imagine but
Paris is the densest city
europe
Paris is the fifth most
dense in the world paris she
same density as shanghai is it’s a
Swiss watch that was thought and
built almost 60 years ago
five people especially by
haussmann all that thanks to the building of
report
I do not know if you know what it is
a building is a building
who is making money from money
it was the first form of buildings in
renting families build
buildings to pay the credit of the
funding that the bank give them one
is in 1850
it’s the Parisian panorama ben he has
something extraordinary is that
1,100 years in a century
it was thought to be housing
then it often became offices
to become housing hotels again
social housing in any case he has a
form of flexibility and resilience
extraordinary whose channel participated in
this contest we wondered about is
what we are able
to learn from this building and the
transfer a contemporary key and this
moment we started to
analyze it there is something quite
of fairly direct the facade is made
by 50% glazing and 50% of two
full parts and that was almost a
chance since osman was not giving
rule to truthfully participate in the sales of
land by imposing on all
buyers and therefore the owners of
future report buildings it
had to align his face to two neighbors
and that we had to build windows
rhythmic like their neighbors
so basically we designed the facades
without knowing what was behind
since the facade is imposed on the act of
sale in a certain way so is
this a generic facade that allows
somewhere all the uses so
the auvergne stay imprint of window
in a room one borrows one
then the ceiling heights of
every floor after the moon of
socialization of the construction of
people like me who face a halo
different typologies in France when
we make housing we put of m 82 in
the slab
when we do the office did 3
meters 62nd slab on the loan to do
a gallery we probably put five
meters in any case there is a relationship
direct between construction
the volume and its use that has become
mechanical so we built through
a dimensional system what is
pretty amazing in a building of
intake is that the ground floor there
goes from 4 to 6 meters the entresort it goes from
2 meters 83 m the first floor four
50 meters and then you went back
same time to put 80 for the attic
and for good water chambers
there is within the same architecture
an offer extraordinary volumes ettiques
which allowed in time often
to have students on the first floor
second floor offices anyway
an extremely mixed life form at
within the same architecture
then it’s a compact building
was done as I told you by
specific parts purchases on
catalog so it’s a form
hyper prefabricated buildings but
especially that generates a strong identity
since we are all going to buy the same
railing so at some point the
railing becomes part of the dna
of the city itself and above all there is
something rather interesting it is
that the ground floor can connect
on the first floor in the mezzanine without
go through the common staircase stuff
it means that tomorrow mcdonald’s
happens he can take the
ground floor and the mezzanine and if
it’s the little neighborhood bakery
in the mezzanine someone will live there in
anyway the commercial reserve of the
city lp doubled and that’s some
thing that makes all the streets in paris
extremely alive if you know
paris you know that there are bars
open every minute of restaurants that
transform a club will exceed one
true life that is done through the
does that the availability of the surface
live l doubled so what we did
of our building is that we tried
to resume these five six
characteristics so at the very beginning we
has a very nice building we put the
structure outside to make the
totally flexible trays
the building as an office building
to my 35 so that it can express itself
in an office we connected the
ground floor and on the first floor we have
used a module between three floor
meters 20 which is a badly trimmed dimension
between dwellings and offices but in all
case that allows an office it’s a fake
ceiling and a larger dwelling
we used only one window when
you want loggias b besides the
same window and pushed back
so that tomorrow she can recover
on the first facade and that was at
contest b a desktop version a
housing version and we loaded
obviously the whole structure of
the building your questions to measure
2 accommodate offices or other
uses so we went 180 kilos
per square meter for dwellings in
300 kg of offices is more than that we have
radicalized the thing by saying that
all the systems so the evacuation the
son electricity does it all the
technique passed in a facade
made so that those here
tomorrow someone has div
he knows that whatever they seek he has
just to be measured to connect to
this facade so all these facts like
a lego by prefabricated parts
which ultimately gives this
building and that’s the building
and as the plot was corner he
automatically enter this language
iconic Parisian corner building
in these two examples that I have you
shown one always leaves in the eure in
a case the form move it through the
empty in a second she she moves to
through the very intelligence of the
structure
but in both cases the buildings
are heard age quid if the user
reduced then brancusi aim all road
who would have a shape even move me
I will say all architecture is a form
a movement and the third project that
I’m showing you talk about it’s talking about a
motion without use
the third project of the coup he is at
bure bure and years later is very small
village of the muse
it looks like that there are 90 people bur
you see it to the north bur a member
probably 120 and to sautron maybe
200 and the contest it was a pc it was
you have to do the building that consumes
the least in europe and at the same time
must not be seen he must do a
example that is not seen too much and he
just wanted on a floor
look at the history of archives you do not
will never find an archive that exists
on one story floor rushing into a
educational path we did with the
customer in which it was explained that if
we made a 2.5 level cube rather
that interest his morphology already by the
fact that the façade facade includes
also the roof ben she was going from
makes me go from eleven thousand to five
thousand for the same surface but already there
cut energy consumption by
two because it was necessary to heat and
cool half of the surface and in
more but expanding on the
plot makes that one does not approach
more and more from the sole point of view or who
a of this building which is from the street
while with a building very very
compact and a little further even though
was five levels we could have
ultimately diminish the effect found
the perspective effect it’s him tomorrow
it’s totally cliché but sometimes
it must be done by cons what is
true in this story is that we
recover all the land and that suddenly
we could manage the waters of the building
clean them up and reinject them into the
building from there we were
convinced that a cube was something
interesting thing what I have you
not say is that once you store
7h he releases twice a year
fifteen days 10 and it’s a building
without use knows how much one stores and one
So, it’s a sculpture
middle of nature and alert him
occupation and integration therefore to
from there we started thinking
on how to integrate with the inputs
students and movies that could happen
of what was around and all the
world get there with the same picture and we
had said to himself is what is possible
that the building can change
color with the change of season
to be that it is possible that the building
can somewhere become white candy
to the snow or reflect the sunset
sun or in any case evolve with
finally the only thing that there was
around who was this this nature and
social and from there we made
images that we gave to the contest
in which finally showed a
matter coming from the earth a sort of
concrete the same color as the earth
with inside points that
were chrome and who thinks it’s a
little like predator what was happening
around and we showed him a white have
shown a drink or the morning of very
close to show that we knew ourselves the
to do but as we were very young we
got it we called the customer and we got
says we do not know how to do it
this facade
and that was a big lesson because
So we were very surprised to hear them
architects are asking us for everything we
only owes it to me I go to
friends they tell me you’re an architect
yeah I have a hen that is broken so
you have to know everything and in fact we took
share this building that just need to be said
that maybe we do not know so from
from there we started looking for a
it was the project the other was the
facade
I will show you so we patented
the facade and the hand the way in which
built and I’m going to show you the
video of how a panel is made
so that’s the mold in which we
sinks a panel so everything is going to have
looks pretty simple but you have to know
that nothing existed before so we did
50 million prototypes in hand
broken 12 million lozenges so he
are these plastics that we needed
find where we could not welded so
we developed the glue the the place is
indicated by a triangulation of
fist and a lionel pair are glued
on the mold
there is something about kom kom small
hands me 6.1 pellets for each
panel we had besides asked
to the 90 people who lived there the
village if he wanted to come and stick the
pellets the concrete is tempted to the
thin and we complete the figure across
gray concrete that reinforces the structure
then you had to move the whole floor
since the panel was too heavy
it is the highest honor to the 18
meters of length am too much me
wanted the appearance of the earth finally
we came sand and concrete through
a jet of high pressure plus sand and
a wash to finally remove the
film and but we even had to develop
tools the everything you see in
Red is one of the tools
draw to turn those panels that
was every summer thought to withstand
attraction
meba the rotation of the blow all this effort
the idea was to lose the ladder of
building and make that a building that
does not have a window that has no use
can somehow interact with
the landscape you will see 24 hours on the
site and so the sun race during
spring
there is something quite interesting
where this form finally come in
relationship with what’s going on around
it’s just a day from 10h to 20h
in fact everything was drawn everything was
thought for the game
to see these levels of abstraction up
the fence that is made on a system
English or who is called to the idea
was to make her disappear
it will be called because people
arrive and finally he fall and there
he was doing 1 1
and suddenly we do not see the culture around
this abstraction that makes this
form becomes a form of a piece of
landscapes we go inside everything
is underground there is a patio
offices are obviously oriented
it overlooks the countryside this is the
terrace the five people who
work here twice a year
archives in mms case it’s beautiful it’s
we were afraid of the reaction
people
and it was pretty amazing because at one
moment the landscaper who worked
on what is called base and that suddenly
to work at the end of the building me
called to say a beast you have to
come on because something is happening
interesting enough
I went to see suddenly on the site and
like people not in these three
villages around do not have much to
to do and that ultimately it’s the only
where a given moment we pay by
reflections see the sunset
they come to the edge of the road they
put little chairs where he brings
the little cousin where they bring their
children and they use the building
as if it was a belvedere and this
blow story and it was one of our
first impressions so it was and 1
it was really touching for us but
what I like is the idea that
finally the game you talk about the
movement at the start but I was talking to you
especially architectural architecture
who is that moment when we do not respond
just a question but mostly we
generates something that can speak
even generate a story and I think
that archived df is totally out
nuclear except totally the system
archiving and becomes a piece of a
landscape that that of the muse thank you
[Applause]
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