Architectural spaces are generally reduced to images, projections of volumes on planes. What an absurdity! Think a second about what architecture loses when we flatten it on a glossy magazine’s corner!
How can we balance this loss? 
How can we go beyond the image in order to show more, to show what is the project’s core?
Let’s change the medium! Let’s represent a three-dimension by another three-dimension!
Though, can we reach, thanks to modelling, the image’s level of abstraction? We have to discard superfluity, keep exclusively what is meaningful. Reach the core of the space.
Fit the project in a suitcase
Reduce it
Retain only the essential
Keep the concept
Naked.

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Art Workshop / “The City in a Suitcase”
A different way to represent SANAA’s 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art (Kanazawa, Japan, 1999-2004)

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Spring Term 2008

ENSA Paris-Malaquais, Paris, FR

Teacher: Bertrand Lamarche