FONTAINEBLEAU SCHOOLS 2024 / CARBONE : TO BE OR NOT TO BE
Architecture Director: Antonio FRAUSTO
Professors: Anne-Françoise JUMEAU, Jimena TORRE and Nicholas STANOS
Teaching assistant : Rochelle YU
MATERIALITY
The Château de Fontainebleau, like many other monuments, offers us a fine example of constructions and assemblages of materials making up its architecture: stone, brick, wood, glass, slate, gold, are visible, shown in the splendid result of a virtuous method of construction. We therefore often forget the origin of the raw material, its extraction, like the energy necessary to transform a piece of rock, a tree, a ton of sand - and even the water coming from the sources of Fontainebleau - into materials used for construction. During this week, we will be challenged to observe and identify these complexes built in the construction of the Château de Fontainebleau.
OBSERVATION
We will begin with a simple and precise observation of the elements and their assembly to translate them into sketches, making the effort not to distort with our cultural background what we perceive. From this observation, elements and groups will be expressed. You will find many observation elements near the castle or during this week's visits, but be careful not to distort them and to use the observation method that an archaeologist would use: footprints, samples, etc.
RE-INVENT
At a time of ecological transition, architects are using bio-sourced and/or reused materials and reinventing constructive techniques from the past: recreating, reinventing and innovating with traditional materials. The challenge of construction is now the balance between the energy used to build and the choice of material, its transport and its implementation process.
The objective here is to capture the essence of a series of materials and their use to give them a new understanding, a new code, a new way of understanding and using it which transforms them to create new places for harmonious life.
RESTORATION
At the end of the process, the objective is to produce a series of surfaces and spaces, places of life and experiences, expressing the fundamental elements of the materials in new assemblages, shapes and textures.
As in the first week, we strongly encourage you to collaborate with a composer, which is a unique, once in a lifetime opportunity, so embrace it!