Louise Lescure
Architecture

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Urban mobility has been a core issue in my last works as a student. After having dealt with it in my graduate thesis, I face it concretely in my final studying project where old rails are used to move small built elements among a housing area. Mobility is not reducible to journeys. It encompasses the notions of creation, fluidity or dynamism. Putting mobility at the center of a housing project reframe the thinking of housing in terms of urban life more than in terms of domestic comfort. This interest I have in mobility goes along with a taste for monumentality, from Ricardo Bofill’s Walden 7 in Barcelona to housing districts in Varsaw. I try to understand mobility’s lightness and monumentality’s inertia as two complementary elements of an architecture that I like to conceive as labyrinthine. The quietness behind thick walls may offer shelter in a super-dynamic environment while the breaking of passages and openings in a massive structure gives a chance to be surprised and encourage life to happen. At school, my works focused on housing buildings. Housing remains in the center of my reflexions, however thinking at the scale of a single building doesn’t enable to work deeply on how a housing building intertwines with its urban surrounding. The image of the labyrinth allows to think of housing as a standing back position in an urban context while being fully integrated in the urban economy of agitation and intimacy.

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