The projects around the "Already-there" theme - section run counter to the classic creation-destruction system/cycle thanks to a thoughtful approach to reuse. Objects that have fallen into disuse, industrial relics like slag heaps, historic monuments, neglected landscapes and abandoned sites: each project appropriates locations and artefacts from bygone eras. Each one embodies, in its own way, metomymic fragments of spaces or contexts from which they were conceived. Together, they are renewing the ways we inhabit vacant and obsolete spaces, monumental concretions of a world in decline.
Spollia
Materra-Matang, 2024
This 1:3 scale prototype for a façade of the Pavillon des Jardins for the French Embassy in Italy is made of recycled materials: orginal tiles from the Palazzo Farnese (16th century), terracotta bricks (19th century), Carrara marble, Sampietrini, Tivoli travertine marble and amphora fragments. This project has been developed in partnership with the Villa Médicis in Rome.
Lune Ardente
Valentin Devos, 2022
What meaning do slap heaps, these mountains of coal mining residue, carry today? Starting from their history, designer Valentin Devos looks back at his own practice of collecting from the slag heaps of Pays à Part d’Haillicourt, and the way a relationship is built between the slap heap landscape and the intimacy of domestic practices. The result is spheres made from material taken from the scrap heap, cast and polished, which question the way the historical and landscape heritage can be exhibited and reinvented in a contemporary form.
Structure Saint-Georges
Amor immeuble, 2024
Stones and marble from fireplaces in Haussmann buildings are reused here for their structural potential: the contoured shape becomes part of the building frame, abstracted from its original structure. This project by cabinet maker Antoine Cadot, consists of oak and different marbles: Red of Rance, Belgian Black, Carrara and Lourdes.
Anna Saint Pierre
A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris and holder of a doctorate in design, Anna Saint Pierre has called for profound reflection on materiality and the preservation of built heritage. On building sites, the designer collects materials destined to be scrapped to transform them and incorporate them in future works such as floor coverings or paintings. Her alternative approach to design transcends the dualism between
the disposable and the preservable. Anna Saint Pierre wants to go beyond a circular approach to
"give life to the memory of sites". Her thesis entitled Textiliser la mémoire bâtie, which she defended in 2022 and developed at the EnsadLab and with architecture firm SCAU, roots her research in the field.
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