ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 372

Fri Mar 21 23:29:37 PDT 2008

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LES ARCHIVES DEPARTEMENTALES
    by Kevin Matthews
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	There is something inherently abstract about the
	government archive.  Storage of old records can too
	easily be seen as a utility function free of aesthetic
	aspiration. Compared to a classic library program, an
	archive might be seen as exaggerating the stacks while
	minimizing the interacting human element.  In some
	archives these tendencies lead to the place where the
	technical function of storage obliterates the impulse
	for architecture.

	This helps understand how fresh and open the expression
	is of the Archives departementales d'Ille-et-Vilaine, in
	Rennes, France, by French architects Ibos & Vitart,
	based in Paris.  Resonating with the glass stacks of
	Perrault's Bibliotheque nationale de France in Paris
	(1996), yet more immediately frank and rational, the
	archives here are also sheathed in an upright glass
	case, which is set behind a transparent, earth-touched
	slab housing all the human functions of the center.

	"These are two sealed worlds, one open and warm, the
	other black. They are almost incompatible," in the words
	of Myrto Vitart.

	The building name, "Archives departementales," radiates
	outward from the glass case in four-story-tall
	red-letter supergraphics, providing both a proclamatory
	distant effect and an abstract decorative local effect
	within the building.  The dual symbolism expresses at a
	civic scale the responsibility of a public memory, and
	at an individual scale the curatorially detached
	engagement with specific small elements of the memory.
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	The glass-and-steel R128 House is located on a steeply
	sloped site with panoramic views of Stuttgart, Germany.
	Although this house seems sterile and completely
	transparent, it is a home where comfort and privacy
	issues for the inhabitants have been met. It is a
	completely recyclable, emission-free, energy
	self-sufficient building.
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	coating and why?
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