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Description
The presentation explains the method of “Maquette Figure” (Figure Model) and “organigramme” (Organization Chart), with two architecture projects in master’s program in ENSA Paris-Belleville. “Maquette Figure” serves as a device that defines the sense of a project, which represents the relationship with the context and the spatial configuration. It’s structured by orthogonal planes, then planes placed on the context express the dilation(expansion), the tension, the compression, the directionality, and the orientation, by their proportions and the relationship with the surrounding. “Organigramme” builds the functioning and the articulation between the programs of a project. It contains blocks of different programs linked to each other, like chips in circuits of a motherboard, colored to represent classifications and proportioned to represent surface areas.
“Maquette Figure” can easily be read as a geometry to be built, but it’s not a direct translation of physical forms but rather a spatial guide that structures the project with its goal to keep the crucial concepts even when spaces become complex. “Organigramme” is more than a two-dimensional representation of programs, but it expands to three-dimensional composition; it means that the blocks of programs are not rooms and corridors to be drawn on a rigid plan, but it organizes the relationship between programs whether in plans, in sections, or even in perspectives. As two elements develop on each part, they are combined with colored, measured, and structured figures that then leads to an architecture.
Each of two projects applying the method has a different context and objectives, one in a highly urbanized residential area in Paris and another in a rural town called Meung-sur-Loire at the riverside of Loire, but both keep the core idea of the approach. The project in Paris has three main programs, a student residence, a mediatheque, and a swimming pool. It focuses on improving urban condition of the site and developing an organic articulation between the three programs. The project in Meung-sur-Loire is also a multi-program project, which includes agriculture, sports, and commerce. It expands to a territorial scale with three figures interacting with the limit and the urban situation of the town, and its programs aim to integrate the core production activity, agriculture, into a daily domain.
References
Îlot Oasis (Project done by the author)
Culture de la Loire (Project done by the author)
| Keywords | Maquette Figure, Organigramme |
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