The unfinished. The game of metamorphoses in architecture.
Parentheses| N° d'inventaire | 32151 |
| Format | 17 X 24 |
| Détails | 208 p., 131 illustrations, paperback |
| Publication | Marseille, 2025 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782863643990 |
Long considered unusual and singular, the rehabilitation of existing buildings is now becoming a systematic consideration in major architectural and urban projects. The reason? The priority given to the ecological virtues of reuse, which has recently been grafted onto the founding concern of heritage preservation.
Former abbey church, municipal swimming pool, disused train station, abandoned industrial warehouses, factories, mills and workshops at a standstill: destruction is the solution of a bygone era; paradoxically retrograde.
The author of this work, who was involved in the transformation of the Orsay station into a museum and designed, among other things, La Piscine in Roubaix and the Valence museum, was one of the pioneers of architectural metamorphosis in France.
Armed with solid experience, he convincingly defends the idea that every construction carries within itself an infinite potential for future lives and uses – and that none, with a few exceptions, deserves the death penalty.
Just as he strives to demonstrate, with a great deal of examples, how transforming buildings is, just like creating ex nihilo, a full-fledged work of architecture.
Long considered unusual and singular, the rehabilitation of existing buildings is now becoming a systematic consideration in major architectural and urban projects. The reason? The priority given to the ecological virtues of reuse, which has recently been grafted onto the founding concern of heritage preservation.
Former abbey church, municipal swimming pool, disused train station, abandoned industrial warehouses, factories, mills and workshops at a standstill: destruction is the solution of a bygone era; paradoxically retrograde.
The author of this work, who was involved in the transformation of the Orsay station into a museum and designed, among other things, La Piscine in Roubaix and the Valence museum, was one of the pioneers of architectural metamorphosis in France.
Armed with solid experience, he convincingly defends the idea that every construction carries within itself an infinite potential for future lives and uses – and that none, with a few exceptions, deserves the death penalty.
Just as he strives to demonstrate, with a great deal of examples, how transforming buildings is, just like creating ex nihilo, a full-fledged work of architecture.