| CARPE DIEM . . . is the reason why we chose this problem.
After a journey through university which was full of meeting deadlines,
choices, thoughts, little achievements or things that did not go so well,
and knowing that this experience would be merely one of "Passage"
from the "Initial" familiar academic world, and the "later"
unfamiliar world of work, we wanted to grasp this moment, to take this
experience and make a project out of it, to understand and relate this
passage. From the outset it was clear that it would be a unique experience.
It was unique in that we could express ourselves freely and this desire
to experiment brought us to architectural reality, to grasp the moment
between an exterior and interior. We were led to this design process by
questions whose answers had to come not only from our personal backgrounds,
but also from elements which could support complex self-generation, which
ordered and put in a matrix, led us to unexpected results. Now this "moment"
does not exist. This division between interior and exterior is not a novelty.
It does not divide or link in a significant manner any more. Now this division,
this threshold, must be reconsidered and defined.
This is the point of departure of our experience. . .
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It is a question that we asked ourselves, too.
The initial idea was to tackle a problem which we had never encountered
before, one which we found particularly stimulating, and to put the experience
we had accumulated in the polytechnic to the test. Furthermore, we got
to know each other by chance while we were working on a new project which
roused our curiosity and which transformed our studies into a completely
new experience. It was, in a way, like a jump in the dark. We put all our beliefs and assumptions into question
during our work but in the end we landed on our feet. Have our efforts paid off? |
