H a m e d S é k o u T o u r é P o r t f o l i o A r c h i t e c t u r e 2016 - 2022 | U r b a n + A r c h i t e c t u r e D e s i g n + P l a n n i n g
To whom it concerns:
Hamed Sékou Touré has also obtained a scholarship for the Eramsus+ program and he was accepted by Professor Igarashi Taro at Tohoku University in Japan which is still ongoing.
Hamed Sékou Touré is a very motivated student that I position among the best I have ever had : honest, passionate and discreet but eager for learning, curuios and open to suggestions. After completing succesfully the studio design, he has joined my office for doing an internship and he has been my collaborator on several projects of different scale. After completing his undergatuate diploma, he asked to do a second internship in my architecture firm, during which he has been able to put his research, creativity and ability to team work to good use. His continuous work of research and exploration, allowed him to validate the first year of the master's degree with great distinction at the end of a remarkable academic year. Moreover, I would say that he has a remarkable sensitivity for architecture design. Indeed, he has distinguished himself by the fact that he has obtained the prestigious Architecture Faculty Award 2021. He has disti nguished himself by his commitment, the hard work he always shows and his enthusiasm for his research for the project and the architecture studio.
Hamed Sékou Touré is a very determined student who puts a lots of efforts and work tirelessly until the achievement of assigned tasks He is a person on which we can rely and he is able to manage all the assigned responsibilities with care.
Hamed Sékou Touré is unquestionably an exceptional. There is ample evidence suggesting that he would greatly benefit from the opportunities for intellectual development. He has proven the perseverance, initiative, and intellectual creativity. I strongly support the steps that would allow Hamed Sékou Touré to continue his journey. I am available if more information is needed, Warm regards, Salvator John A. LIOTTA
Salvator John A. LIOTTA, Associate Professor, PhD Head of the Architecture and Constructive Cultures Doctoral Seminar salvator+33john.liotta@ulb.be(0)622821835
Bruxelles, le 20 Janvier 2022
I am writing this letter to give my highest recommendation to Mr. Hamed Sékou Touré. I am currently an associate professor at the Architecture faculty La Cambre Horta at Université Libre de Bruxelles and I was a research associate at the Kengo Kuma Lab of the University of Tokyo. I came to know Mr. Hamed Sékou Touré when he was a bachelor's student in architecture at La Cambre Horta Architecture Faculty, attending my classes about Architecture and Complex structures focusing on the relationship between structural design and architectural design.
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On going I S H I G A M I Jun’ya | Architecte Design assistance and study model proposal. 2022 | 02 Internship : Leonet Hoang, Brussels, Belgium
2021 | 02 Internship : Laps Architecture, Paris, France
8 months Salvator-John A. LIOTTA + Fabienne LOUYOT Assistance to cultural and educational projects. ( APS, APD, DCE )
4 months Working as an assistant professor in the architectural design studio in B.Arch 1 at ULB La Cambre Horta.
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Junior architect at junya.ishigami+associates in Tokyo, Japan. Graduate in architecture at the faculty of architecture of the Université Libre de Bruxelles La Cambre Horta and researcher at the laboratory of Professor Igarashi Tarō at Tōhoku University in Sendai. The portfolio presents a selection of research and works realized during my years of study in architecture. Projects and drawings that are not necessarily finished. They are still in the process of reflection. Moreover, it is an interesting state of the project because it opens the field of possibilities.
HAMED SEKOU TOURE
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5 months Charles LEONET + Ngoc HOANG | Architectes & Antiquaires
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EDUCATION
Part time Assistance to housing and furniture projects. Participation in the installation of furniture in the Gallery. 2021 | 09 Teaching Assistant at La Cambre Horta, Brussels, Belgium
LANGUAGES French
Mother tongue English
2021 | 2022 M.Arch 2 at Tohoku University, Sendaï, Miyagi, Japan International Exchange T O H O K U - School of Engineering 五 十 嵐 太 郎 研 究 室 | Igarashi Tarō Lab. Urban + Architectural Design Theory 2020 | 2022 M.Arch at ULB La Cambre Horta, Brussels, Belgium Urban Assemblages Studio MicroMegasLab Studio 2016 | 2019 B.Arch at ULB La Cambre Horta, Brussels, Belgium WORK EXPERIENCE
2022 | 08 Junior architect : junya.ishigami+associates, Tokyo, Japan
Symposium Contribution and publication for an international online seminar about Soils : https://soildepths.ulb.be/ 2021 | 09 Louvain, by MicromegasLab Studio Book With the students and teachers of the MicromegasLab Studio.
2021 | 07 Tokyo, un guide de l’architecture moderne 1868 - 2021, by Salvator-John A. LIOTTA Book Participation in the publication. Realization of drawings of selected buildings for the Guide and the page-setting. 2019 | 03 Detroit Future City, United States Workshop With Studio MicroMegaLab. 2018 | 09 MDW Architecture, Brussels, Belgium
2022 | 04 The Architecture Faculty Award Exhibition Exhibition Project selected for the exhibition. Setting up of the project with the curators of the exhibition, Philippe De Clerck and Marc Mawet. 2021 | 10 Sino - Japan Joint Design Workshop 2021 Workshop Regeneration and construction of traditional villages - Study of Zimajie Village. Academic collaboration between Tōhoku University, Japan and Huazhong University, China. 2021 | 09 Soil Depths
2022 | 02 Selected project : 16th Tonchiku Cup Tōhoku University Architecture Award Competition. 2021 | 12 1st Prize : Purple Horse Prize in the 2021 Sino - Japan Joint Design Workshop
As part of the Urban and Architectural Planning Studio at Tōhoku University led by Masashige Motoe sensei. Project published in the Sino - Japan Joint Design Workshop Book. 2021 | 10 1st Prize + Great Distinction : 8th The Architecture Faculty Award 2021, Interstitial Soil Depths
ACTIVITIES / ACHIVEMENTS
COMPETITION AWARD
Project selected of the Urban Assemblages Studio for the La Cambre Horta Architecture Faculty Award. Models and drawings selected for the final exhibition at La Cambre Horta Museum.
Volunteering Project for the Belgian Parliament. Realization of a detail in a 1:1 scale model (assembly of foam bricks).
2017 | 05 1st Prize + Distinction : The B.Arch 1 photo competition, Meditation Center ULB La Cambre Horta B.Arch 1 Photography + Architectural Project in Venice. Photo selected for the final exhibition at La Cambre Horta Museum.
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The soil atlas that was made allowed us to see the natural zoning of the site. We can clearly see that the roads, which we consi der here as boundaries, break this zoning. It seemed interesting to us to redefine the boundaries to allow the same type of soil to form the same gap and therefore perhaps a greater ecosystem of species living in each of these areas. We made a collection of soils and found that they are all different from each other. Some are more specific than others. Some have been there for a long time and some have been put in the ground recently.
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+ Research for the project «Interstitial Soil Depths»
Soil Depths
MA1 - Fall Semester - Urban Assemblages Studio
We have also done some experiments to find out exactly what type of soil we have here so that we know what we can do with it and what we can do with it and to highlight which ones should be preserved and left to nature, especially for the species that live there. Especially for the species that live Thethere.soils encountered on the site have very distinct characteristics and allow different appropriations. We studied the many di mensions of the soil and tried to connect these different features together ; Soil as a landscape element. Soil as purpose. Soil as stock. Soil as a landscape element.Soil as a resource. Soil as a traitment.
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The most important thing for us according to our project study is to include a place for non-humans. We started by identifying the areas that seemed to house the most non-humans species by going through our atlases.
Process subtraction 1. Process subtraction 2. Process subtraction 3. Second phase plan.First phase plan. Plan of the third phase.
An important element on the site is the bunker that was built to be used as an hospital during the second world war. We found interesting to integrate it as a landscape feature and to let the nature enter it by breaking some walls and some parts of the built ground to make room for the soil. The openings made in the bunker becomes sitting area.
The building opens up at strategic points close to these species-rich areas to create niches.The project study we try to develop aims to invite people discover the city in a slightly more sensitive way. By using the more than enough resources available on the site, we think that we propose a project that is not only a landscape design but also an relevant place of production making the cohabitation between humans and non humans possible.
-11Plaster Model 1:20 Bunker Clos du chateau d’Eau Schaerbeek Formation Interior views of the model
-12Renovation.Wall with two accesses. Conservation. Readings.porosity. Library. Objet Unit.Apparent structure. What the plaster hides. Double functions.Furniture Wall with view.
The Studio Micromegas Lab proposes to study urban context by comparing elements at both the micro and macro scale. The MicromegasLab Studio proposes to make at least one drawing or model per day in A5 format. This exercise is a retrospective calendar that keeps track of the mechanisms and process of design. It reveals each person’s abilities and personalities in terms of creativity, taste, composition etc. It is usually in these A5s that we find together the concepts and graphic expressions that will guide the projects.
Daily study model
MA1 - Personal research - MicromegasLab Studio Models as architectural work. Production of a model as a generator of a story. A story that allows the realisation of an architectural project.
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Detail of the assembly of the panels. Designed with Salvator - John Liotta.
Research Project Arts & Architecture Pop-up | bookstall reinvented Duration 3 weeks
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B(H)OOK a free form bookstall
The project B(H)OOK proposes a new philosophy of bringing books closer to users, thanks to a system which is modular, versatile, flexible and that can be adjusted to different size, space and demands. The name B(H)OOK comes from the fact that panels are hooked together by wooden dowel pins. Our idea is to use a rectangular format that reminds books most common shape. However, instead of ranging them as in a bookshelf, we connect them by super posing them. The system is very simple: Honext panels are connected through wooden dowel pins. Each panel is connected to other panels. The growth and shape of the system is in theory endless. In our proposal the panels have a half-A2 size format. but the for mat can be adjusted to the client needs since the system doesn’t change its logic 9 it could be done with A3 size panels or free rectangular form panels)
The book stall we propose here is visually challenging and stimulating, it changes as pect according to the movements of the people that move around it: this is an im portant aspect of our proposal. In fact, we believe that books give to people the same power : looking at things from different points of view by enriching everyone of a different aspect of knowledge. The system can be composed of 10 or 100 panels, it is a sort of 3d Lego. / Assembly
The panels of our proposal are thought for having a size and a weight that can be ma naged by a single person and that can be easily assembled by a single non specialised worker by following a manual that we will provide with the project. The dimensions of the display system are adaptable to suit both the proposed layout of the upcoming exhibition and other po tential set-ups.The assembly and disassem bly does not require specialised personnel or complicated tools, just a rubber hammer and a pair of tongs. The exhibition system is flexible, as it offers many different types of models. We have imagined a sort of rhizomatic logic for an endless growth of a shape that can be confi gured according to the different space and situations.
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Broken, Restore, Splice, Rebirth
Research Master Plan 石原拓実 | Ishihara Takumi Research Project Personal
Program Tea Educational Institutions Location Zimajie Village, Yunnan Provience,
Thus, the traditional ancient village that does not adapt to modern needs can be repaired into a «new vessel» with both traditional characteristics and modern features.
Studio Urban and Architectural Planning Supervisors 岩田司 | Tsukasa Iwata 本江正茂 | Masashige Motoe 市川 紘司 | Koji Ichikawa Period October
Fall semester - MA2 - International Exchange J A P A N + Selected project : Tonchiku Cup, Tōhoku Univ. Competition, February 2022
+ 1st Prize : Purple Horse Prize in the 2021 Sino - Japan Joint Design Workshop Village space is like a vessel composed of material, cultural and human activities. With the impact of time, the vessel became old and broken and no longer fit for modern needs. In modern times, villages need more advanced production methods and meet the needs of more diverse people. Therefore, our design is required to restore the damaged village, integrate different elements, and make it re-born. The intention is to apply the concept of Jinshan to our design. The design fits into the village space as the «gold» of Jinshan.
The project is a continuation of the village square, an educational facility for the conservation of tea culture. It is articulated horizontally so as to connect two ends, namely the two main roads of the village. - 2021 China
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Courtyard - Group Courtyard - Garden Courtyard - Water basin Courtyard - Fine gravel
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Porosity, relationship between the street and the interior
Connect the 2 main streets in the village Existing horizontal line - Contraction / Dilation.
Sequences, from the street to the courtyard- Building that activates the street ( red )
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The intention is to preserve as much as pos sible the organisation of the existing buil dings in the village. The buildings facing the street are replaced by buildings that rein terpret the forms of the existing buildings where the open ground floor serves as a Tolibrary.the rear of the new buildings, the tradi tional buildings of the village are renovated and offer a new spatial organisation for the tasting of the different teas around the courtyards. The courtyards are designed to develop new species, bringing more biodi versity to the village. The project offers workshop spaces for lear ning about tea culture as an extension of tea tasting. The library is open to the public and the workshop spaces communicate with it.
The street becomes a continuity of the ground floor. The building is made of wood and local bricks which allow permeability and respect for the site. The roofs are ins pired by the existing roofs of traditional buildings. In addition, the roofs adapt to the heights of the existing buildings. They allow the spaces on level 1 to open up onto the rice fields, thus adopting different positions and slopes depending on their location.
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Model 1:150, Building that serves as access to one of the courtyards and tea rooms
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Réhabilitation,
MA1 - Fall semester + 1st Prize + Great Distinction : The Architecture Faculty Award 2021 + Models and drawings selected for the final exhibition at La Cambre Horta Museum + Project published in the Year Book 2021 & Exhibited in the Project Award Museum, April 2022
The project creates a destination in the nomans-lands of Schaerbeek Formation. The fascination for this building started from the “interstitial” position it occupies in the area. This interstice creates a new link between Haren and Neder-Over-Heembeek on the canal, with a new installation as a central point a new facility. This facility is entirely dedicated to soil and is created in an abandoned building of the SNCB, formerly dedicated to accommodating ancillary activities (refectory/canteen, administration…).
Studio Urban Assemblages Supervisors N.Casabella (ncasabel@ulb.be)
B.Burquel (Benoit.Burquel@ulb.be)
Period September - January 2021 Program Production Hall + Canteen Location Schaerbeek Formation, Brussels Research Project with Angélique Soglo Interstitial Soil Depths
Theinside.circulation in the building is a promenade with an inhabited interstice leading to the glass house and the kitchen garden where food will be grown and then cooked in the canteen that appears as an interesting facility for the future industrialdevelopment.
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The metaphor of forest stratification is used to describe its functioning, where food is grown and compost is collected and fermented, recalling the agricultural legacy of Haren. The understory, the ground floor, where soils is gathered and reworked into construction materials. The production hall allows to shows several facets of the site. Soils are brought to the site, stored, exposed and treated on site under the eye of everyone passing-by. They participate in the composition of the landscape, of theinterstitial place. The ground floor has no limits, it was designed from the soil. Niches merge into the program, and the movement continues as the soil is stored and treated. There is no precise space to store the different soils, it is done at random so as to compose and continue the landscape with it. The soils are left on the plot outside and then brought
Bunker SubtractionBicycle PathNo contraints for wild plantsNiches - SNCB Building Niches - Bunker Clos du Château d’ Eau
Master Plan, Project implemented with the master plan by Secchi Vigano
Ground floor - Production Hall
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Studio MicromegasLab Supervisors A.Simon ( Alain.Simon@ulb.be) E.Deprez ( Eve.Deprez@ulb..be)
We know that the impact of construction in the tertiary sector represents more than 3/4 of the carbon footprint of a m2 built over fifty years. Breaking down to rebuild means emitting even more CO2 than the construction of a new building on a virgin site. The waste produced by the building sector represents 42 million tons per year, more than three quarters of which comes from demolition work. -This is why this reflection on renovation/ rehabilitation is so important today. Our approach is the renovation and rehabilitation of a neo-classical building in Leuven. Formerly a private space, it is now a library: a public space accessible to all.
Period February - June 2021 Program Renovation, Library Location Mechelsestraat 174, 3000 Leuven, Belgium Research Project with Hippolyte Gotovitch
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Heritage Library
MA1 - Spring semester + Project selected and published in the book of the MicromegasLab studio « Louvain »
Even more than the simple updating of a heritage in the process of obsolescence, the rehabilitation process allows to consider increasing the potential of the existing by different means. First, it will allow the enhancement of the pre-existing architectural qualities of a building. Taking into account what already exists, constitutes a potential for creativity. Its study will help to reveal the potential of what already exists. It is a question at the same time of improving the old building, of transforming it to adapt it to the contemporary requirements and of re valorizing its image, to make of what was for merly an ordinary rural building an element worthy of being preserved and enhanced. Vertical connection Opening in the existing to connect the spaces Space crossing
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Garden side facade
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Openings Floor covering Seating in continuity with the ground Opening on the ground floorStructure and library are an integral partExterior circulation
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Crossing a space that did not exist yesterday Perspective corridor library
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Furthermore, the overhanging roof marking the entrances is reminiscent of the entrance porches of Detroit’s traditional houses.The intention was to respond to the needs of Detroit residents who lack the means.
The project attempts to question «living» and «working». This tool library is run by a handyman of the neighborhood, but also his secondary place of life. The wood structure create a rhythm and defines the different spaces. The project stands out for its The Glass Envelope. The wood structure create a rhythm and defines the different spaces.
The implementation follows Detroit’s town planning rules creating two accesses on either side of the parcel. The project fits into the context with its simple forms and roo fing. The structure, made entirely of wood, is reminiscent of early Detroit homes.
Studio MicromegasLab Supervisors A.Simon
E.Deprez
Period February - June 2019 Program Housing - Workshop Location North End, Detroit, USA Research Project Personal
The main issue of this project is to make work spaces coexist with living spaces. The plot already possessed two qualities that made it possible to imagine a combination of living and working spaces. Its location both on the edge of a busy road on the industrial side and where a landscape of vast small houses stands out at the back of the plot.
BA3
Inhabited Tool Library - Spring semester ( Alain.Simon@ulb.be) ( Eve.Deprez@ulb..be)
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Dualities. Detroit vacant lots. The Tool Library is home. Car as a means of exchange. Car as a means of exchange. Car as a means of exchange.
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Streets of detroit. Traffic flows. House organization. The plot has two qualities. The plot has two qualities. Tools exposed to the street.
Perspective inside the workshop. Stairs as sculpture. Private spaces perspective.
Model 1:200 made with recycled materials (made by the studio MicroMegaLab)
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Car as a means of exchange Lending of tools and deposit of tools to get money
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Storage and exchange of tools spaces around the workshop spaces
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2018 Program Housing Location
Period - December Mons, Belgium
September
R.Desmet ( redesmet@ulb.be)
This cohousing project is presented as a U-shaped building integrating 8 dwellings, a library and a ve getable garden managed by the cohabitants for the benefit of the citizens. The cohabitat is divided into two parts connected by a greenhouse. The two co habitat work and see the evolution of the vegetable garden together. In this way, the dwellings are through-going. They give views both on the vegetable garden but also on the park with the church and the governmental institution. project BA3 - Fall semester
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salvator-john.liotta@ulb.be
This housing project takes place in the medieval center of Mons, just beside grand place and the main streets. This cohabitation articulates the en trance to different places ; the park, the new public square of the governmental institution and the pa vilion. The main idea of this project is to connect the two cohousing and create physical and visual interactions between them.
Supervisors N.Casabella (nadia.casabella@ulb.be ) D.Poncelet (dany.poncelet@ulb.be ) ( )
S-J.-Liotta
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Research Project Personal
bird’s eye view of the urban settlement composed polycarbonate and CLT organisation
The entrance to the dwellings is via a greenhouse that each of the two cohabitats share where their common spaces are or ganized. The greenhouse is an extension of their living quarters. This project is meant to be an intergenera tional cohabitation with generous common spaces that promote the sharing but provide also more private spaces allowing a certain intimacy. Crossing from one cohabitation to another is done via footbridges.
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View on public park
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Entrance to the shared kitchen
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Model 1:20, 45 degree entrance to the Fontana Pavilion
This work consists of the composition of a pavilion with 3 spaces and their articulations. An architectu ral reference, a work as well as a visual escape have been attributed to me, notably Philippe Johnson’s Glass House, Fontana and «I was Here». Three elements composing the Glass’House were a source of inspiration for my project.The 45* access path giving an overview of Philippe Johnson’s pro ject. It guides us without having to shift our gaze from outside the intimate spaces in the house. The same is true for my project, in which I added bam boo woods for protection from prying eyes.
Supervisors
Period September
November 2017 Program Artistic Pavillon Location Bamboo forest Research Project Personal
Fontana Pavilion BA2 - Fall Semester M.Pinto ( miguel.pinto@ulb.be) -
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Fontana Space
Framing towards the landscape
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Period February - June 2017 Program Collective Housing & Meditation Center
Location Lazzaretto Vecchio, Venezia, Italy Research Project Personal
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Supervisors K.Katara ( kiran.katara@ulb.be )
Wastelands have become a space for gardening or walking that is organized perpendicular to the shared terraces of visitors.
The experience created is a walk that starts from the boat dock, crosses the common areas, serves the private spaces, leads to the meditation room and ends on a hulk, the moment we share alone with nature.
Meditation Center BA1 - Spring Semester
Build on an island in the middle of the Adriatic Sea, it’s a meditation center that can accommodate 8 to 12 residents for a period of 6 months. Inspired by « manifeste de gilles clement» the project is being im plemented on the tip of the island in order to create a distinction with the Italian heritage, including the vegetation and the former hospital.
The project aims to offer meditation spaces directly related to water and light. The interstices sculpted from the roof diffuse light into the private spaces giving an atmosphere conducive to meditation.
Distinction + 1st Prize : The B.Arch 1 photo competition
H.Bauwens ( hugo.bauwens@ulb.be )
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Perpective of the Garden From the garden view on the rooms
Exterior circulation
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Joseph Brodsky, Acqua alta, Gallimard, Paris, 1992 Texte proposé par Maurizio Cohen
Un poète nous dit souvent l’essentiel, avec les mots exacts et un regard intense «La dentelle verticale des façades vénitiennes est la meilleure trace que le temps-alias-l’eau ait lais sée où que ce soit sur la terre ferme.Bien plus, il y a indéniablement, une correspondance - si ce n’est un lien direct - entre la nature rectangulaire des présentoirs de dentelle - c’est-à-dire les édi fices d’ici - et l’anarchie des eaux qui rejettent la notion de forme. Comme si l’espace, conscient ici plus qu’en tout autre lieu de son infériorité face au temps, lui répondait par la seule propriété dont le tempssoit dépourvu ; la beauté. Et c’est pourquoi l’eau s’empare de cette réponse, la triture en tous sens la fouette et la déchiquette, mais à la fin l’en traîne presque intacte jusque dans l’Adriatique.»
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Hamed Sékou
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