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SHELTER
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Bureau A
Images: Dylan Perrenoud, http://dylanperrenoud.ch/
Client: BSA/FAS (Bund Schweizer Architeckten/Fédération des Architectes Suisses/Federazione Architetti Svizzeri)
Completion date: Summer 2016
 

SHELTER

OVERGROUND 
Architecture seeks the underground, searches for new territories under the skin of the earth. Bachelard woke up the right to the unconscious spatial exploration of the underground through the figure of the cellar. Virilio unveiled the potential of semi-buried architectures in his Bunker Archeology. Colomine brought up to light the hidden architectures and psychotic strategies of the American society during the Second World War in her book Domesticity at War.

Posted 30 September 2016

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The underground fascinates and completes the hygienic and panoptical world of the over-ground. For one night, the black hole of a neat and well organized society is revealed as a potential for distortion, a potential of let-go and provoke, with a slight smile, the unsaid and the sweat. The mysterious black vessel lands in the modern space of a highly engendered concrete vault; a great spatial condition to explore the corners of what is hidden. 

Bureau A
Shelter, 2016
Dylan Perrenoud, http://dylanperrenoud.ch/

The temporary shelter installation is a dark inflatable bar with a Dj. The whole structure as well as the interior furniture is made out of black PVC membrane. When the party is over the installation is deflated and transported to another location.

Bureau A
Shelter, 2016
Dylan Perrenoud, http://dylanperrenoud.ch/

Bureau A
Shelter, 2016
Dylan Perrenoud, http://dylanperrenoud.ch/

Founded in 2012, BUREAU A is the association of Leopold Banchini and Daniel Zamarbide. Architects by training BUREAU A is a multidisciplinary platform aiming to blur the boundaries of research and project making on architectural related subjects, whichever their nature and status.
 
BUREAU A is profoundly rooted in architectural culture and history, understood as a vast field of exploration related to construction and installation of environments for specific purposes. The bureau expands its activities to a large diversity of programs ranging from architecture and landscape design to scenography, installations, or self-constructed initiatives. It has developed a specific interest in public spaces and political issues; how design and architecture can possibly confront them is at the heart of the interrogations cultivated by the bureau.

BUREAU A invests widely in research, cultivating its partner’s interest in cultural exchanges and transmission through education. The bureau teached at the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD). It is now guest professor at the Polytechnical School of Architecture in Lausanne (EPFL) and head of the Studio for Imediate Spaces at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. The bureau has conducted numerous workshops and lectures in Europe but also worldwide.

Bureau A
Shelter, 2016
Dylan Perrenoud, http://dylanperrenoud.ch/

Bureau A
Shelter, 2016
Dylan Perrenoud, http://dylanperrenoud.ch/

BUREAU A has gained, in a short period of time, a wide recognition through a number of awards and publications. The bureau was, amongst other things, awarded with the Swiss Art Awards and first prize for the CEVA Champel public space competition and Ville et Champs competition. Its work has been presented at the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel for the exhibition "Orientations: Young Swiss Architects", at Art Basel for "Design at Large" and at the MUDAC in Lausanne. The projects of the bureau have been published in the most important design blogs and a wide number of international paper publications.
 
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BUREAU A GENEVA
rue de Grenus 12, 1201 Genève, Switzerland
 
BUREAU A LISBOA
rua dos Anjos 3, 1150-032 Lisboa, Portugal

info@a-bureau.com
www.a-bureau.com

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