OBJETS TROUVÉS
Objets Trouvés, or found objects, is a research initiative by architects Barrault Pressacco. Forty-two international practices were invited to speculate on the architectural transformation of ‘found objects’ through a series of diptychs. The project culminated in an exhibition of each contributors work at Cité de l’architecture et du Patrimoine, Paris, and an accompanying catalogue. The following work was Sanchez Benton architects’ submission towards the exhibition.
The diptych, Towering Timber, explores the transformation of a 3-tiered extending timber ladder into a pentamerous tower structure. Now primarily used in the telecommunications industry, these filigree structures which were once produced on a broad scale, are only manufactured, and maintained by a couple of specialist companies within the UK. By partitioning the existing ladder at proportional distances between rungs a series of regular fragments are created; when coupled with the inherent widths of the three ladder sections, a multitude of stackable pentagonal segments can be generated to form a tower structure.
barrault pressacco
sanchez benton architects
OBJETS TROUVÉS
Objets Trouvés, or found objects, is a research initiative by architects Barrault Pressacco. Forty-two international practices were invited to speculate on the architectural transformation of ‘found objects’ through a series of diptychs. The project culminated in an exhibition of each contributors work at Cité de l’architecture et du Patrimoine, Paris, and an accompanying catalogue.
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The following work was Sanchez Benton architects’ submission towards the exhibition.
The diptych, Towering Timber, explores the transformation of a 3-tiered extending timber ladder into a pentamerous tower structure. Now primarily used in the telecommunications industry, these filigree structures which were once produced on a broad scale, are only manufactured, and maintained by a couple of specialist companies within the UK. By partitioning the existing ladder at proportional distances between rungs a series of regular fragments are created; when coupled with the inherent widths of the three ladder sections, a multitude of stackable pentagonal segments can be generated to form a tower structure.
barrault pressacco
sanchez benton architects