Mésarchitectures – The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Posted on Janeiro 13, 2010
The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a project by the architecture studio Mésarchitectures , made by the architect Didier Fiuza Faustino of Paris. The project consisted on a pair of swing seats on a billboard frame, it´s conceived as a mobile installation and can be erected around an existing billboard.
They explain about the project:
THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING
SPECIFICITY
Urban reanimation devicePURPOSE
The Unbearable Lightness of Being responds to the society of materialism where individual desires seems to be prevailing over all.
This piece of urban furniture, by being nomad, allows the reactivation of different public spaces. It enables inhabitants to reappropriate fragments of their city. They will both escape and dominate public space through a game of equilibrium and desequilibrium.
By playing this “risky” game, and testing their own limits, two people can experience together a new perception of space, void, lightness and recover an awarness of the physical world.
This hybrid object, meaningfull only through the body, being all at once physical and social may be a tool for a collective experience of fragility.
MATERIAL
Billboard and swings mix , steel ladder, steel lattice platform, protective nets on steel structure, waterproof floodlights.
(Can be set up on existing billboard)
Via: Dezeen
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