MONOGRAPHY DOMINIQUE PERRAULT

Surveying – We will go from surface to depth to establish that the often-neglected underground constitutes an environmental and urban resource for building sustainable cities and protecting landscapes.

Mapping – We will go from building to building, which often help define the skyline of cities that are always connected to a neighborhood that already exists or is in the process of being built. Like a choreography, each adopts its own figure or posture to resonate with shapes and places. Writing Like Dmitri Mendeleev’s periodic table, the urban grid is applied and distorted to become, depending on the context, a megalopolis or a fragment of the city.

Rewriting – Any reworking of what already exists starts from the premise that architecture is never complete. The process remains open-ended: the architectural object is not fixed, any more than its urban environment.