thomas.gillard
Concrete Plinth Manipulation
The manipulation of the plinth through the pushing and pulling of topographical differences within the concrete.
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This project was for the reappropriation of an old military barracks in Paris. The defining characteristic of the site as it is today is the idea of a walled-off, inaccessible and highly disused area - valuable space within the city of Paris that is cut off from rest of the community.
In line with our initial interest in the materiality of the site, we decided to turn the architectural problematic of reappropriating an exclusive, enclosed, and largely disused space into a metonymic question - “What does it mean to occupy a wall?”
Concrete Plinth Manipulation
The manipulation of the plinth through the pushing and pulling of topographical differences within the concrete.
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This project was for the reappropriation of an old military barracks in Paris. The defining characteristic of the site as it is today is the idea of a walled-off, inaccessible and highly disused area - valuable space within the city of Paris that is cut off from rest of the community.
In line with our initial interest in the materiality of the site, we decided to turn the architectural problematic of reappropriating an exclusive, enclosed, and largely disused space into a metonymic question - “What does it mean to occupy a wall?”