The Festival des Architectures Vives aims to raise public awareness of the wide range of architecture. It seeks not only to highlight the work of a young generation of architects, landscape architects and urban planners but also to make discover unexpected urban areas. In 2014, the Festival des Architectures Vives invested 8 sites in total with 7 installations + 1 pavilion.
Team presentation. Marion Moustey and Alexandre Arcens, Architects.
Convinced that the practice of an architect cannot be without a certain openness to different fields, the team formed by Marion Moustey and Alexandre Arcens seeks to explore architecture through multiple eyes. It is with the same ambition that both approach their studies in the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Montpellier. Enriched by individual experiences acquired through the participation in various international competitions and workshops, they undertake their degrees at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Montpellier for one, the Arkitektskolen Aarhus Denmark for other. This common interest in the mixing of areas of studies and the work at various scales makes them approach architecture with a guenuine sensitivity.
FAV 2014 à La Grande Motte took place one week after FAV 2014 in Montpellier.
Description of the project by Marion Moustey and Alexandre Arcens, Architects.
"It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me is the free and sensual curve that I find in the body of the beloved woman."
Oscar Niemeyer
Set on the harbor of La Grande Motte, the installation faces the sea. It guides the look towards the horizon while reminding the curves of the female body. Which material to choose if not the lace, voluptuous and evocative of the senses ?
The spheres, dressed in embroidery, open a dialogue between full and void. Indeed, the texture of the lace creates a game of shadow and light. Applied on floating spheres, it offers roundness reflexions on the water.
The Sensual Wave plays with water, without ever touching it, brushes it, goes away from it. As a magical moment, the ephemeral character of the installation evokes a waves that we can't hold back.
CREDITS. DATA SHEET.-
Architects.- Marion Moustey, Architect, Montpellier, France and Alexandre Arcens, Architect, Paris, France.
Organizer.- Festival des Architectures Vives.
Size.- 60 sqm.
Location.- Quai Charles de Gaule, La Grande Motte, France.
Official project name.- Festival des Architectures Vives - FAV 2014 à Montpellier.
Location.- La Grande Motte.
Date of the event.- June 2014.
