#fernand pouillon

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Les 200 Logements | Aix en Provence | Fernand Pouillon | 1953

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Avec ma copine Isabelle, on est allés faire un tour à la Seyne-sur-Mer, dans le Var.

Nous voici dans le quartier des Sablettes. On joue aux stars sous une pergola créée par Fernand Pouillon.

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"La Tourette", Square Protis, Rue Saint-Laurent, Esplanade de la Tourette, Marseille, France [1948-53] _ Architect: Fernand Pouillon _ Photos by: Spyros Kaprinis [26.05.2024].

"Remarked very positively at the time by the Ministry of Reconstruction, this project will play an important role in the subsequent attribution to Fernand Pouillon of the buildings on the quay of the port. He himself writes how this study marked an important date in the history of construction. For the first time an architect thinks as an organizer, financier, engineer, inventor and artist, and achieves the lowest construction price ever seen. During the creation of this set F. Pouillon validates his sensations and his previous knowledge, implements ideas - which he had the opportunity to forge during his collaboration with Eugène Beaudoin during the war - on town planning and the insertion of a project in an emblematic landscape, experimented with the site coordination office, the principle of which he had just invented and which no one would do without now, created the solidarity group of companies (legal structure which has continued to the present day), studies in the smallest details the costs of construction simultaneously with the design, invents the technical sheath that we know, the cast stone (hard stone plates which replace the facade formwork), insulation phonics between apartments by the insertion in wavy waves of lengths of thick fabric between the partitions, the anti-mistral spanner (a cardan system), etc. No vertical reinforced concrete framework."

Marseille_Tourette

MARSEILLE 1948-1953

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Hotel M'Zab, Ghardaïa, Algeria, Fernand Pouillon, 1970

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FERNAND POUILLON, Hôtel Corne d‘Or, Tipasa, Algeria, 1968

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« The site loomed into view like a wide clearing of bright sunlight in a forest. The rock [...] lay waiting for the morning when a fresh series of blows was to impress on it the superior right of man. And the land knows that these blows cannot be halted. Men decided “it shall be here,” whereupon trees were felled, the thorny undergrowth burnt, [...] and the rock laid bare to be carved [...].

Later on, our venture will seem quite natural. A house of men or of priests is at home in natural surroudings; [...] its existence is justified by the road which winds towards it from afar. However, every human settlement has its origins in a choice. [In] a certain spot which is part of a whole environment, there we say, “This is where it shall be. We will enclose a portion of this space between walls, organize our lives inside them and, confining ourselves to this area, we will spend each day cultivating and maintaining this little space we have taken from nature.”

So, in his valley or his plain or on his peak, man occupies the land, clears a piece of earth or rock and shuts in the impalpable. This land is to be a home, a different, important world, sought out by man to be his place of defence, where he can take shelter and turn his mind inwards.

After the providential cave [...], man began building artificial shelters. Then he began to want these to be beautiful [...]. Amidst all the fascinating variety of nature, [...] his hopes are centred on an object fifty feet long, thirty feet wide and fifteen feet high [...], not much in terms of space, but almost everything in terms of his heart. »

— Fernand Pouillon, The Stones of the Abbey

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