This project, carried out by the team made up of Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal (leading architects), Frédéric Druot and Christophe Hutin (associated architects), won the Mies van der Rohe European Union Prize for architecture in 2019. The film has been documenting the daily lives of the residents of the three buildings since the beginning of the project. the work, based on permanence, documents each apartment, from its initial state, by way of the process of transformation, to its appropriation by the residents. This film, not as an illustration of an architect’s intention, but for its documentary value regarding the transformation of the residents’ daily lives.
The exhibited films are triptychs, in reference to painting, but also to the film “Napoleon” by Abel Gance, from 1927. Visually and aurally immersed, spectators visit the spaces with different points of view offering another way of representing the space, more than a perspective. The central image of each triptych is a tracking shot that travels through the lived environments. On either side, there are images of daily life, as well as images of the processes of transformation carried out in the spaces by the architects and residents.
Christophe Hutin