Pa r c d e l a V i l l e t t e Paris, 1983. It is Tschumi who creates the masterpiece of layer poetics. The project was born following the international competition for the aménagement de l’Est de Paris, from which Tschumi will emerge as the winner. The park presents itself as a container of activities and functions related not only to entertainment, but also to education, thus affirming the concept of “ cultural park “. The park de la Villette, also created in collaboration with Derrida, represents the programmatic manifesto of architectural deconstruction, which sees the architect and the philosopher lined up side by side to define the general rules and generating flows. You will no longer have a pure and crystallized form, but red points called Folies , which constitute a dissociated series of “generating cells ”, whose transformations cannot be circumscribed. The system of lines is instead intended for circulation and identified through two straight and orthogonal axes, underlined by wavy canopies, which intersect and join the extreme access points to the park.
Fig. 30 Construction Layers and Elements
The system of surfaces, on the other hand, is formed from the resulting space due to the intersection of the different paths and consists of large extensions intended for lawns. The Parc de la Villette turns out to be a reflection on time, on the past, the present, the future, and on their relationships. Fig. 32 Facing page. Diagram of the project
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Fig. 31 Points as ‘Follies’
