Research Architecture

This living laboratory is just that. Its concrete shell is covered in high-density insulation wrapped in geo-fabric, and a secondary support structure envelops the building mass. The secondary structure supports 1200 hydroponically grown ferns “coming from the Devonian period, technologically domesticated to come back in the actual regressive French period,” in order to achieve a subtropical retreat in the middle of Paris.

Architect’s statement:

“It s the story of an urban witch living behind a rear windows designed as a duck cabana. As alchemist, she feeds the plant with drop by drop hydroponics system watering liquid substances coming from the bacterian chemical preparation in 200 beakers disseminated in the ferns surfaces.The neighborhood is both attracted by the green aspect and repulsed by the brewage and the process to produce it.”