Hortus Installation, Just as a play cannot exist without an audience, a landscape exists through the eyes of those who look at it. Actor or spectator, the roles here don’t seem fixed, quite the opposite. Everyone who visits this place plays a part in the fragile balance of the site and contributes to the production of the landscape in its current state. By building a form of « proscenium », the installation will reveal the play that is played out around it every day, and question the roles of everyone involved.
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Which side is the audience on? Which side are the actors on? Here, because of the symmetry of the installation, evoking a theatre where the curtain hides neither the backstage nor the audience, it’s hard to know which side everyone is on.
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As the project is rooted in a wider context than the hortillonnages, all the materials and construction techniques used are references to the history of the Amiens region.
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The structure, made of regional wood, reinterprets traditional « colombage » with an unusual infill: a textile, identical to that used in theatre curtains. Made from linen grown and spun in Normandy, the fabric is hand-dyed in the region using the emblematic Amiens plant: Waide, or Isatis Tinctoria.
Project Info
Architects: Banco!
Area: 23 m²
Year: 2024
Country: Amiens, France
Photographs:Banco!
Office Lead Architects: Bourguignon Quentin, Delebecque Marin & Doin Luc
Design Team: Banco!
