The Pavillon Neuflize OBC, the Palais de Tokyo’s creative research lab & Anne Lacaton, Jean-Philippe Vassal and Florian de Pous, architects
A film consists of a series of situations, spaces, movements and relationships between characters and their surroundings. The filmmaker begins by constructing details, which he then composes to create a new space. When an architect constructs spaces from existing, heterogeneous spaces, his work becomes similar to that of the filmmaker and involves an entirely new way of approaching the architectural project. A project is a fiction.
As we conceive our projects, we are interested in the similarities between the architect’s and the filmmaker’s working process. Our method emphasizes a fragmentary thought. Editing, in that it creates meaning by establishing relationships, becomes a central creative process.
In this collaboration with the artists of the Pavillon, we will focus on the image, considering the different ways in which architecture and cinema combine to compose an architectural or urban space, as in a movie.