A psychotropic architectural tale

PSYCHOTROPIA

or the hospital of every consumption

PSYCHOTROPIA

or the hospital of every consumption

By Armelle Breuil Part of the master thesis project in architecture «L’Hôpital de toutes les consommations» executed at Ecole Nationale Supérieure Paris Val de Seine under the supervision of Alain Guiheux & Catherine Rannou in 2017.

The project is composed by an «architectural» project and a written part.

60ies, an era full of pop, colors, wishes for peace, and psychedelics, social rights... and of course demonstration, leading to riots, students vs government. all around the world ideas of equality, freedom and fraternity rub off. from the u.s to europe, from san francisco to paris, berkely to tibet. a revolution expressed through art, architecture and literature.

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it was a time for protests, to ask the u.s to stop war in vietnam, the norwegian one to give more right to women allow abortion.

some request were harder to obtain

The king needs to move, we need his castle!

kids coming back from woodstock imported marijuana, which they smoke in the garden of the castle

the counterculture in oslo gathered at Cafe 7, initiated by attila horvath and odd schou. the club had different location... and so did the open-drug scene

the first of may of 1973, the police and the youth had a confrontation

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From then, norway became one of the most repressive states in western europe on the drugs policy. the maximum penalty for drug offences rose from six months imprisonment to 6 years, to 21 years -the maximum prison sentence for a crime under norwegian law.

Drug users were forced to move, from the western part of the city to the eastern part, chased. this happened not only in scandinavia but all around the world, and today drug users remain a minority, a criminalized group victim of many abuse. an eternal journey began at the Slottparken and ended up at the bus stop of brugata and in the shopping mall "gunerius", owned by olav thon, soon destroyed to build another hotel. but what if it did not happen that way?

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what if the building was kept, extensions made in order to create an excentric place, housing all kinds of consumptions? a psychotropia.

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got some extra lucy, any interested?

but jens petter wanted some, he will join us at the club later

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cool!

hope there is no queue

meanwhile at the entrance of the workshop tower...

first drawing

then “making�

then “RELAXING”

a drink?

how did i end up here?

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HEY YOU! IT’S BEEN A WHILE... WANT TO TRY SOMETHING COOL?

which one?

ALICE..

wonderland

meanwhile in the laboratory...

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top quality! high dosage can you analyse this blotter?

LOOK AT THAT GUY IN THE CLUB!!

we should tell people that this new blotter is very strong or they could have a surprise...

let’s take him to the relaxing room

hold on

he’s heavy

you’ll be better here

SO COOL HERE ALSO..

seems it’s time for me to join the consumption room team

a client you know was searching for you

relaxing space

main Entrance for the staff Entrance for the drug users

supervised consumption room

hello you! need some help?

indeed. but too late for today...

... i’d like to start the substitution program

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To be continued...

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Story & project freely inspired by the dope academy described in the supplement "OUTLAW AREA" of the magazine WHC (-p 22

Fig. 21 Steve Brand «Dope Academy». Extraits du supplément «Outlaw Area» p 22

MAIN BIBLIOGRAPHY: Baudrillard, jean. la societe de Consommation. Paris: Denoel, 1970 CARROUGES, michel, les machines celibataires. Paris: Arcanes, 1954 DELEUZE, Gilles & GUATTARI, felix. Capitalisme et Schizophrenie: l’anti-oedipe. Paris: aux editions de minuit, 1972 LALLEMENT michel, l’age du faire: hacking, travail, anarchie. paris: seuil, 2016 Fuller, Buckminster Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth. Zurich: Lars Muller, 2008 Chu, Hsiao-yun, Trujillo, Roberto G. ed. New Views on R. Buckminster Fuller. Stanford: SUP, 2008 RAUNING gerald, dividuum machinic capitalism and molecular revolution. boston: Semiotexte foreign Agents, 2016 SANDAS lars, narko-atlas Oslo, Oslo: Stripa Forlag, 2016

MOVIES: CORMAN, roger. the trip. 1967 GASNIER, louis. reefer madness. 1936 NOE, Gaspard. enter the Void. 2009

the pictures used in the first part of this comic can be found in the written part of the thesis.

we can’t defeat the existing system; we must build a better one instead