committee :
Martine Bouchier, Pierre Bourlier, Philippe Rahm, Chiara Parisi, Elizabeth Mortamais
2007

Studying the idea of time in architecture and landscape, our project tries to invent a kind of space and organization that could make feel this fourth dimension. The chosen program is an extension of the current Art & Landscape Center on the island of Vassivière, right in the middle of an artificial hydro-electric lake.
The project then explores the geography of the island and the lake, acting as an oppostie architecture to the existing building from Aldo Rossi by searching underwater the flooded history of the site…
By developping the concept of «dé-spatialisation» and «blurred architecture», the building gradually dissolves into fragments, lines, dots and then into some kind of mist, allowing its temporal dimension to be experienced as its geometrical dimensions dissappear…