Designer, Scenographer and Director, his impresive living architectures and live productions are a total inspiration for us.
Francois Delarozière is an incredible machine designer, he created living architectures for street theathre caring all the details. Through his drawings Francois represents the insides of machines and makes their architecture visible, also get the feel about how they have been made, with cogs and pulleys.
He created with Pierre Orefice and Alexandre Chémétoff, ‘Les Machines de l’Île’, located on the Western point of Nantes Island, a cultural and touristic facilities inaugurated in 2007.
His latest creation, “Long Ma Jing Shen”, stages a Dragon-Horse created for the 50th anniversary of Franco-Chinese diplomatic relations in Beijing in 2015.
On the video below Francois, as artistic director of the company La Machine, presents his book "Bestiaire, Machines et Ornements", published by Actes Sud, available at his shop.
image1. Le Arbre aux Hérons. Francois Delarozière. Section. Esc 1/10.
image2. Le Manege Carré Senart. Les cuatre Boeues. Francois Delarozière. Section. Esc 1/10.
image3. Le Serpent des Mers. Francois Delarozière. Section. Esc 1/10.
image4. Les Araignées Savantes. Francois Delarozière. Section. Esc 1/10.
image5. L' Attelage des Mers. Francois Delarozière. Section. Esc 1/10.
image6. Le Dragon. Francois Delarozière. Section. Esc 1/10.
Chanéac + Pascal Häusermann :
Centre Beaubourg competition.1974
In 1971, Chanéac wih Claude and Pascal Häusermann made a proposal for the international competition for the construction of the Beaubourg Centre (1971-1974), later renamed Georges Pompidou Centre.
The Chanéac project is completely opposed to the one projected by winners Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, inaugurated in 1977. The rectangular parallelepiped of metal and glass, made of straight lines, the center of Piano and Rogers occupies only half of the site. The Chanéac project, on the other hand, displays large curved volumes of varying sizes, opaque or transparent, overlapping the entire esplanade around a body of water.
As you can see on images above, Chanéac imagined a complex organic structure from a gushing arc and an enveloping arc. The architect defends the concept of architecture as “sculpture and landscape, palpitating, rich and complex in radical opposition with an architectural philosophy that wants to create very neutral volumes to fade before the works in shelters”. As such, Chanéac could trigger audio-visual experiments and generate multiple and unexpected uses.
If you want to see this fantastic drawings, models and other bizarre projects there is an exhibition called ¨Musées sans gravité¨ at Le FRAC-Artothèque du Limousin from 27.01.2017 to 20.05.2017 in Limoges, France.
more about Pompidou Centre here +
more about Cháneac projects + and here +
image 1. Section A-B with notations. Chanéac. Beaubourg Centre , 1974.
image 2. Section AB-CD. Chanéac. Beaubourg Centre , 1974.
image 3. Exploded axonometric diagram. Chanéac. Beaubourg Centre , 1974.
