Specifically designed for the Lambinet National Museum, this galvanized steel pavilion is presented as "a simple act". Its presence seems to be its only quality: that of modifying the perception of the architecture of the place. Its formal simplicity reflects its constructive evidence. At the same ti

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me circular pavilion, rotunda, antechamber, it fits into the perspective. By its simple positioning on the French parterre, it redistributes all the spatiality of the garden, its relationship and approach to the historic building whose pediment it seems to support. The Porchon Hotel resonates all the more with the installation when knowing that the iconography of its tympanum is an allegory of architecture. This high-relief recalls the function of the first owner, entrepreneur of the buildings of Louis XV. If the title of the project strictly refers to the spatial experience it induces: that of turning around, it takes on a very special significance in these heritage site, which moreover houses a collection largely based on the 1789 Revolution. It then enters in resonance with numerous references linked to the architecture of this period, from Boullée to Ledoux, while preserving the double anchoring so strong and characteristic of its authors: great century / third millennium.

Pavilion in galvanized corrugated steel, bolted with washers. Unique prints, engraved aluminum.

Realized with the help of the Lambinet National Museum, Versailles Town Hall, the Contemporary Art Center La Maréchalerie.

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Typologies

Architecture, Building, Buildings & Renovations, Landscape & Garden, Temporary & Micro Architecture, Cultural Institutions

Matières

Galvanized corrugated steel

Projet suivant par nous. Guilhem Solère & Telmo Escapil-Inchauspé