Apr 21–Jun 12, 2022

Ressources

Address
21, bld Morland, 75004 Paris Map
Hours
Tue–Sat 10:30 am–6:30 pm, Sun 11 am–7 pm

For a long time, the nature of the Ile-de-France defined the identity of the streets and the color of Parisian architecture. Fontainebleau sandstone for paving, limestone from the Oise for building, gypsum from Seine-Saint Denis for protection, hardwoods for framing, covering, inhabiting and structuring... If these deposits still exist, they have often disappeared from the vocabulary of contemporary Parisian construction, replaced by imported products and exogenous techniques.

Produced as part of FAIRE, a project-based research program, the Resources event aims to re-establish the link between raw materials and urban form, between architecture and terroir. Architect Timothée Gauvin and videographer Antoine Plouzen Morvan film the metropolitan EARTH, STONE, PLASTER AND WOOD sectors. Their videos reveal the careers and diversity of the Ile-de-France climax. They open the doors to little-known places of transformation: workshops, sawmills, plaster works... They testify to trades, practices and immutable tools that dialogue with industrial techniques and emerging sciences, using knowledge transmitted and reinvented.

In an immersive scenography, the exhibition shows, through four spectacular and educational projections, the metamorphosis of matter into material. Compared to each other, the materials are exhibited in the different phases of their transformation: from the log to the beam, from the block to the rubble, from the powder to the plate... alongside the tools necessary for their transformation. Produced with the support of committed professionals, the exhibition draws up a map that the authors call “material memory map”*, which draws and documents the metamorphosis of materials over a radius of 99 km around Paris.

Before participating in the construction of a building, any material is first a part of territory. An element taken, transformed, transported more or less far to be assembled. Those used today on Ile-de-France construction sites generally come from elsewhere, from France, Europe or the other side of the globe. Sold in catalogs, packaged, labeled, they free us from their origins, make us forget their nature, the means used to manufacture them and the energy to send them to their destination. In doing so, they lose their value and architecture forgets its geography.

As in all areas, contemporary issues invite us to link what we consume with those who produce it, what we buy in our territory of origin. It is the ambition of the Resources event to draw up this reasoned inventory of the land to show the tangible and intangible heritage of metropolitan France and to allow everyone, in particular students and future professionals, the tools to write a new stage of development. vernacular architecture.
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