Invisible metroplolis

Presentation

Question : “what place for this time?” A Thursday night, in the “Grand Paris”, more than 3 million people are working. For whom ? How ? Where ? In which space ? We consider the “Grand Paris” as a territory where the invisibles can be revealed. By studying, discovering, and physically practicing it, materials for projects will come up. The semester  aim in 3 stages project, aesthetic actions leading to research and back to design. Students will be invited in a didactic way, to discover the invisible part of the city, the instable part of the buildings. The aim is to focus their attention on understanding the dimensions of time and scale, variable perception of the territory through mobility mode, articulations and consequently speed, slowness : in planification and architecture equally.  The sites are proposed along the rivers and streams of the metropolis, so the studio addresses each year the question of the risk of flooding, the relationship to the great landscape, the infrastructure often developed in corridors, the inhabited pockets. In the next three years, under the prism of urban fallow, we propose to successively approach the themes of the forest, slowness and mushrooms. These are all successes of resilience, metabolism, which we will study and transpose into architectural and urban issues.