So, how can we live better? – 2024 #2

So, how can we live better? – 2024 #2

Beyond questions of functionality, comfort and individual or collective well-being, the built environment is capable of responding in a stimulating way to societal, energy and environmental challenges. Workplaces, homes, public spaces, interiors and streets are all driven by real statements of intent that motivate their design. 

The 2nd year Graphic Design students worked on a communication based on one of these principles (or others) and on the architectural creation that refers to it in order to promote it.

Studio project (2024) with Nicole Udry

Assistants
Morgane Cachin
Students
Dorian Pangallo, Emilie Müller, Constance Mauler, Diego Steiner, Paul Paturel, Hugo Scholl, Cyprien Valenza, Alfredo Venti, Lidia Molina González, Arnaud Wenger
Know-how
Imagemaking, Editorial

Dorian Pangallo
Dorian Pangallo
Dorian Pangallo
Dorian Pangallo
Dorian Pangallo
Dorian Pangallo
Dorian Pangallo
Dorian Pangallo
Dorian Pangallo
Dorian Pangallo
Dorian Pangallo

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Ailleurs Ici 

Édition

Ailleurs Ici is the story of 132 route de la Fruitière. During their retirement, the two former teachers René and Anne-Marie Favre explored the world. Their travels are above all encounters, the interests of enthusiasts. A history book of faraway lands for René, and a fantastic but tangible herbarium for Annie. But when they return from these expeditions, it's their house that changes. As if undergoing a second metamorphosis. The old renovated barn at 132 Route de la Fruitière has been given a final chrysalis. The walls are filled with colourful objects and prints of exotic negatives. The stones here are filled with prints from elsewhere. Without intending to, René and Annie have turned 132 Route la Fruitière into a museum inhabited by its curators. Elsewhere Here is their catalogue, retracing each of René and Annie's journeys through objects as mystical as they are foreign.

Par Dorian Pangallo

 


Terrain Gurzelen

Édition

It's important, even temporarily, to create parentheses in society, bubbles of utopia that can burst at any moment. The energy that emanates from these ephemeral moments is unique. Gurz is a sensory stroll that hijacks, appropriates and translates the materiality of the Terrain de la Gurzelen, a football pitch temporarily occupied by the residents of the city of Biel. The aim is to leave a trace of the life of this surreal place, which will soon disappear.

 

Par Alfredo Venti

 

Alfredo Venti
Alfredo Venti
Alfredo Venti
Alfredo Venti
Alfredo Venti
Alfredo Venti
Alfredo Venti
Alfredo Venti
Alfredo Venti
Alfredo Venti

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Lidia Molina González
Lidia Molina González
Lidia Molina González
Lidia Molina González
Lidia Molina González
Lidia Molina González
Lidia Molina González
Lidia Molina González

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LEs vieux Blocs 

Édition

Les vieux blocs traces the history of a group of buildings in the Marolles district of Brussels. Emblematic of Art Nouveau architecture, it now represents a meeting point between a social building and an architectural one. 
This project invites us to explore this controversial dynamic by bringing together the tourist side and the social side in the same architecture, with a testimonial from a neighbour and images of tourists strolling through the district.

 

Par Lidia Molina González

 


14’21

Vidéo

This simulation shows the duality between the inflows and the threats posed by the Grande Dixence dam to the population of the valleys below. It traces the hypothetical course of water from the dam to the town of Sierre.

Par Hugo Scholl


Paul Paturel
Paul Paturel
Paul Paturel
Paul Paturel
Paul Paturel
Paul Paturel
Paul Paturel
Paul Paturel
Paul Paturel

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CITY STADIUM LEAGUE

Édition

The city stadium is a multi-purpose urban facility designed for sporting activities and an ideal meeting place for local residents, reinforcing social cohesion. CITY STADIUM LEAGUE, halfway between the famous vignette collection albums and reportage, is an immersive object retracing an amateur football tournament held on 7 and 8 May 2024 in Renens. It highlights not only the sporting event itself, but also the social and unifying impact of the event.

 

Par Paul Paturel

 


Hotel à gogo

Édition

The aim was to pay homage to the abandoned Grand Hôtel Chaumont & Golf in Neuchâtel. Having closed, because it was recluse of any civilization, in the heights of Neuchâtel. At the time it was in operation, the hotel used to organise themed activities to attract customers, but these were unsuccessful and the hotel went bankrupt. So I based the concept of my edition on this theme, recreating melancholy costume scenes inside the hotel, as if someone had never stopped carrying out these activities in this place frozen in time. I did all this with the help of official documents I'd picked up on the spot, such as activity reports and flyers promoting the evenings, the bands, the fancy dress costumes and the concerts. These are included in the edition to accompany the photographic sequence.

 

Par Diego Steiner

 

Diego Steiner
Diego Steiner
Diego Steiner
Diego Steiner
Diego Steiner
Diego Steiner
Diego Steiner
Diego Steiner
Diego Steiner
Diego Steiner

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