Architecture & comics, the drawn City
The comic strip expresses man's desire to invent parallel worlds, imagined and imaginary, sometimes with a critical look at our own reality. By associating the richness of the word with the expressive power of drawing, the comic strip becomes a powerful medium. Political in the sense of polis, the artistic territory of the comic strip is eminently linked to that of the city.
It is both the receptacle and the source of the most extravagant dreams, utopias and urban theories. The comic strip is in search of space and time through constructed imaginary worlds and, thanks to subtle and inventive processes, it goes beyond the limits of a fixed page. The backbone of the scenography consists of a sensitive membrane running along the continuous peripheral walls. Like a long page, it unfolds its stories. It is stretched up and down along rails parallel to the undulations. It is then pulled and pushed by the exhibition supports carried by a network of scaffolding in the background. In recesses or extruding, these ‘elastic’ movements form an ‘inhabited’ relief generating a series of interiorities. Printed with images or information, this stretched membrane is a mediating ‘organ’.
Project
Temporary exhibition "Archi & BD, la ville dessinée" (Architecture & Comics, the Drawn City)
Location
France, Paris 16e
Tender
Public
Surface
1 100 m²
Team
Projectiles, architect + scenograph (project manager)
Panni Demeter, graphic design
Client
La Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine
Stage
COMPETITION 2008
DESIGN IN PROGRESS 2009
CONSTRUCTION 2009
IN USE from June 9, 2010 to January 2, 2011
© Projectiles
© Gaston Bergeret
© Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine
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