Hortus Installation
Hortus Installation
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ARCHITECTS
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LEAD ARCHITECT
Bourguignon Quentin, Delebecque Marin & Doin Luc
DESIGN TEAM
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PHOTOGRAPHS
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AREA
23 m²
YEAR
2024
LOCATION
Amiens, France
CATEGORY
Urbanism, Landscape
English description provided by the architects.
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.
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.
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.
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.
