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I AM ARCHITECTURE
AGRICULTURAL, 2024 (work in progress)

Vernacular

Vernacular architecture refers to buildings commonly found in a specific region or territory during a particular era, reflecting local knowledge, materials, and cultural traditions.

To begin this exploration of agricultural typologies, the traditional form of the barn is enhanced with mural interventions, offering a contemporary reinterpretation of this rural heritage

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Vernacular

Vernacular architecture refers to buildings commonly found in a specific region or territory during a particular era, reflecting local knowledge, materials, and cultural traditions.

To begin this exploration of agricultural typologies, the traditional form of the barn is enhanced with mural interventions, offering a contemporary reinterpretation of this rural heritage

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This series revisits agricultural architecture by incorporating various architectural and artistic styles, such as Constructivism, Deconstructivism, Organic, and Postmodernism, enhanced by mural interventions. It explores structures originally designed for agricultural purposes, as well as abandoned buildings repurposed for farming.
By deconstructing traditional volumes, this project explores new forms and tensions, offering a contemporary reinterpretation of rural architecture.

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Vernacular

Vernacular architecture refers to buildings commonly found in a specific region or territory during a particular era, reflecting local knowledge, materials, and cultural traditions.

To begin this exploration of agricultural typologies, the traditional form of the barn is enhanced with mural interventions, offering a contemporary reinterpretation of this rural heritage

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Expressionism

Historical references and colors fade, volumes deconstruct, function becomes elusive, and fiction takes center stage. Here, agricultural architecture is both expressive and brutalist!​

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Functionalism I

Functionalism is an architectural movement that upheld the idea that form should follow function, although this notion was often used to justify the minimalist lines favored by modernist architects. In these agricultural structures, there is a closer alignment with the original concept of functionalism, where forms are dictated by use, even if their precise function remains enigmatic. As Viollet-le-Duc aptly stated, "We must seek the reason behind every form, for every form has its reason."

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Antique

Ici, l'architecture agricole intègre des colonnes et des frontons, éléments inspirés du temple grec, enrichis par des interventions de peinture murale. Ces recompositions rappellent les premières formes d'architecture grecque dédiées au dieu Xoanon : des cabanes primitives en brique séchée avec des colonnes en bois, d'abord dissimulées à l'intérieur, puis progressivement exposées sur la façade. Ces colonnes et volumes suspendus ne sont pas sans évoquer les œuvres d'un certain Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, dit Le Corbusier.

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Destructivism

For the title of this section, I hesitated between the terms "constructivist" and "deconstructivist," but the neologism "destructivism," derived from "destructuration"—although it does not designate a formal movement—seemed more appropriate. This approach aims to deconstruct traditional forms to create complex and sometimes chaotic volumes, while preserving a recognizable trace of the architectural archetype.

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Functionalism II

Still functionalist structures, enigmatic functions, and agricultural sculptures, where abstraction takes hold, with offset volumes and undulating forms

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