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plan libre 197
Tinies
Not too big, not too small: architecture seems to be destined for a human scale, a medium world. At the boundaries of the same discipline, the sizes of the object and the territory seem to delimit the things that the architect seems to be concerned with: from spoon to town (Ernesto Nathan Roger).
However, the project explicitly or implicitly associates interscalar phenomena, both in its modeling through successive models and drawings and in its realization. A simple rudimentary shelter invokes in its appearance and orientation the Sun 149.6 million kilometers away from Earth, while its roof concerns itself with conducting countless water molecules, each a nanometer in size.
While architecture has relied on astronomy and climate since antiquity, it is only from the 19th century that small things transform architecture. Research on molecules, the observation of bacteria and viruses, open up new scales: the micrometer, the nanometer. Beyond size, it is the declaration of a world within reach, but indivisible, that constitutes a major epistemological rupture in architecture. From the industrial revolution to the present day, the unthought-of "void" keeps filling with invisible materials according to the work of biologists, doctors, and physicists. From hygienic prescriptions that reformed domesticity to decarbonizing buildings, architecture is developed in complicity with a tiny and invisible reality.
Sébastien Martinez-Barat
This is a personal translation, it may vary slightly from the original text.