The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Artist's Studio / Didier Fiúza Faustino © David Boureau+ 41 Share ShareFbTwitterMailPinterestWhatsappOrhttps://www.archdaily.com/988160/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-artists-studio-didier-fiu © David BoureauTextual content description offered by the architects. A studio constructing conceived as an architectural device for the French conceptual artist — and pal of Fiúza Faustino — Jean-Luc Moulène. © David Boureau© David BoureauComing to life in a brand new constructing subsequent to an previous farm advanced within the countryside outdoors the village of Saint-Langis-lès-Mortagne, within the Normandy area of France, the house builds a brand new studio outpost outdoors of Paris for the artist. © David Boureau© David BoureauSections“Every second within the day Jean-Luc modifications his exercise: from 6 to eight he attracts, from 9 on he produces fashions, and so forth. His exercise is a form of choreography, from one second to a different, to a different. So my level was to create an area that enables him to adapt his trajectories in line with his wants.” – Didier Fiúza Faustino© David Boureau© David BoureauPlans + axoTo conceptualize this challenge, exact and minimal language was developed round gesture, work, and creation to greatest meet the wants of the artist: in his totally different modes of manufacturing, in using his instruments, on the size of each the hand and the machine. Extra intimate areas, conducive to reflection and relaxation, have additionally been created — all linked to totally different modes of sunshine remedy (pure and synthetic) and to views taken throughout the house. At evening, the construction and its open home windows are nearly paying homage to a group of photo voltaic panels, referencing its outward gaze and environmental method to the inside.  © David Boureau© David BoureauFrom the skin, the constructing consists of a sequence of an identical volumes distributed in fixed offset over 5 parallel 4m extensive bays. Every of those volumes has a north-facing translucent sloping façade; a north-south roof slope terminating in an opaque glass wall in continuity with the roof. Inside, the meeting defines an open house of 265 m² on the bottom underneath 8m of peak on the ridge, lower in its heart by an east-west fault the place the doorway and the entry to a mezzanine of 100 m² are positioned. © David BoureauThe partitions and roofs are manufactured from prefabricated wood-framed caissons mounted to a bolstered concrete slab and lined with a water-proof black rubber membrane. This uniform matt black pores and skin transforms the constructing right into a shadow, making it disappear into its atmosphere like a constructing not meant to be seen; solely used. The construction is pared all the way down to its barest necessities — on this case referring to an final website for inventive follow. © David Boureau© David BoureauThe lighting within the pavilion is designed particularly for the atelier by Fiúza Faustino, and the lamps will seem as a scenographic ingredient in EXIST/RESIST; the primary institutional exhibition surveying the artist-architect’s three many years of follow, opening in fall 2022 at MAAT in Lisbon. © David Boureau