SLOPING HOUSE

It is preparing the 2013 edition of Nature Festival Arts in Auvergne, France and the pair Francesca Bonesio and Nicolas Guiraud, which forms 37.2 atelier have resubmitted an interesting proposal, held this year 2012, micro-architecture, Sloping House, also in Besse, Auvergne.

Inhabited Sculptures.

This project is a series of 4 minimal spaces (less than 20 sq. meters), designed according to a specific typology of landscape. They are inspired by pure and simple sensations provoked by a specific outdoor scenery: a sea cliff, a sunflower / wheat field, a roof in a city, a dense forest. Each Sculpture is designed as a land art installation that creates a trouble event in the landscape. But each Sculpture is also designed to be inhabited : It is a monastic place to retreat or to live in that offers a very singular point of view on the environnement. The minimalist approach concerns not only design but also function : these are not luxury fully equipped cabins lost in nature, but small scale intimate monasteries. A bare space that has no need for furniture: the interior design is included in the architectural concept. The only function of this micro-architecture series is to provoke a spiritual experience, to create a constant dialogue with its occupant.

SH#5 - SLOPING HOUSE

Sloping House is a makeshift shelter that clings to the side of an extinct volcano in the Puy de Serveix, in France's Massif Central. Built from recycled timber by the artists themselves, this sculptural one-person refuge, seems to erupt from the grassy slope, as if the structure's wooden planks are being flung out of the earth only to reform into the neat lines of an archetypal hut.

On entering, you will be forced to crouch, as in a boat descending a wave. You will have the feeling of literally plunging into a skyless landscape and it is only when you seat yourself down on the strange, angular recliner within that the sky will reappear and you will experience the unique sensation of this peculiar vantage point.

CREDITS:

Authors: atelier 37.2 [18 rue rampal, Paris. / www.37-2.com]
Year: 2012
Collaborators: Anna Checchi, Christophe Bernard
Area: Auvergne region, France
Photo credits: atelier 37.2

Materials/products used in this project (type/brand):
The entire construction is made of recycled pine wood, assembled by saws and painted in white.

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Sloping house by atelier 37.2 architecture. Image courtesy of atelier 37.2 architecture.

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Vision from interior. Sloping house by atelier 37.2 architecture. Image courtesy of atelier 37.2 architecture.

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. ATELIER 37.2

ATELIER 37.2 is the result of an encounter between Italian architect, Francesca Bonesio and French photographer / art director, Nicolas Guiraud. It is a micro-architecture studio whose production and resarch are centred on the relational and narrative potential of space. 37.2 develops: Small-scale architecture projects for any kind of scene (private, public, individual, collective, social, spiritual) and spatial installations more specifically designed for artistic and cultural institutions as well as for the public space.

Francesca Bonesio was born in 1976 in Torino, Italy. She has an M.A. in Architecture (2001) and a P.h.D. (2007) in Architectural Restoration from the Politecnico of Turin, where she teaches as studio assistant on the faculty of architecture. Between 2001 and 2008, she worked for different architectural studios in Turin and in Paris.

Nicolas Guiraud was born in 1970 in Bayonne, France. He graduated with a degree in Economics and Philosophy. He worked with Magnum Photos between 1995 and 2007, where he becomed Creative Director in 2000. He founded two reviews for Magnum Photos : "M" and "Fashion magazine". Since 2001 he combines Photography (Documentary and Fine art) and Art Direction. He has exhibited his photographic work at the Arles Photos Festival, the Palais de Tokyo and Colette. He published "50 0fficial Portraits", a book about homeless people shot in studio in Paris.

Published on: December 5, 2012

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