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it will be fine

it’s amazing to be center

there now I do not know if you

actually happens to be lost in the

time and space to have the feeling

already seen to be everywhere in fact my

work that’s it I’m constantly in

done in a search for a universe that

does not exist or that will exist in a

kind of memories of coming so I

actually started by telling you that he

a few weeks ago actually I finished

reading a book from a writer who

is called michel jeury who makes it a

science fiction writer

the book is called uncertain time in

this book in celebration

the writer invented a character who

actually does some kind of science or some

sciences he baptized the timeline

what makes this character is a

medical researcher he develops at

drug base actually a kind of

losses on perception disturbances

in relation to time and space is in

why am I telling you this because

that we actually

when I said that when I read the

book actually I really felt

that character’s actually they have you 6

6 6 months actually that he embodies

good i’ll start by showing you

some pictures

a photographer his name is nick iwai this

which actually interests in its forms

it is that

the photographer is very interested in

what can we call architecture

of insects or what nature actually

proposes us as possibilities

aesthetic huge el jammal yates in

do what is super

interesting is that the whole

geometry the geometric appearance

spiritual and architectural and already

invented by insects by

animals by nature by the courts

the ecosystem in fact I leave you

meditate on photos

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in fact if you want the dre guyon

Métis biomimicry making it a

a process that today makes it the

science and technology engineering

and the architect is inspired by

to make an extraordinary world

so if you want me I try to

to approach the same approach as

insect for example or an animal that is

based primarily on his institution

to build funds nor his space to

louis his intimate space to dream

external in 2012 I started a project

I was actually invite in a

artist residency at tétouan in

in the heart of the medina and in fact we

wandering I told myself how that

can be how can that become in

does this space in a few hundred

years

how is it going to change and its

excess and I actually try to observe

just around me everything that’s going on

at the architectural planning level in

making a trip from casablanca tetouan

I came across a construction site

building bridges or more

precisely I saw this monolith in

actually makes a building step

which really looks like a monolith

that we find a little similar in

science fiction movies in games

video so through its geometry

how can it be for example

the medina of tetouan by introducing

in fact architectural forms to this

brutalist even in the heart of the medina

have all started the project in fact and

I started doing a job of

the computer image by retouching

images and actually introducing

very brutal forms istres is very

threatening at the same time

so actually the job when I come from

to say I create I’m trying to create in

makes universes of an architecture that

possibly does not serve any purpose

nothing that is right there he goes

present they fear threatening and has in

do not scare it is as if we

builds things to make us

afraid this as a kind of obsession in

did I have long done today on

built to sublimate us into

do I leave you at the same time

look at the pictures

so from that moment on actually

I started to create in 3d actually

in computer generated images of the blocks of

sandstone time and I actually introduced them

in concert alleyways in the heart of the

medina which placed in one aspect

very kind of the post era

apocalyptic where mother silence I

do everything one is really in a kind

of emptiness where the man is no longer there in

does the man

so conscious actually she has everything

built for this disappear actually

to leave room for the bottom

as you can see you actually a

kind of monolith makes it a kind of

construction that does not adhere

absolutely not to the laws of physics that

are there right there not present hyper

strong

I wanted if you want to actually

watch a little excerpt from diaw

ethology makes it the movie on the

medina of tetouan

in fact, my approach to work

I think it’s really interesting to you

to say it in fact is that before before

just going on to make griffins

for example or computer generated images

I do a lot of drawings in fact a

kind of pre-production in which

in fact i’m trying to build csg

nezzar actually

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graphically before 2 before the

achieve

when you can see on the images

so that’s cdc drawings actually where

I really enjoyed myself

question is that this is the

overall construction while

reducing it into a kind of stone

which was precisely the priority the

first building element by

the man actually after I’m going to talk in

made of one of my second project that

I actually realized in Russia the

finland in fact in collaboration with

a Swedish artist named Anna

nelson is actually the project consisted

in fact the book is called hallyday

happy making it an island of

built by the regime plans

nazis during the second war

World

and it’s an island that was

a battlefield where we are

actually arrived she was so

quickly there was absolutely nothing

traces of the passage of languages

what we have left behind

I find it amazing because

finally on the spot I modeled the same

seven-island model out of two on the

cities of today for example on

we our cities and I told myself

how can it be for example the

new york paris or abu dhabi after the

disappearance of man after the great

disaster

so if you want to actually I

always tend to create

post apocalyptic universe where lang

just shine is not not there

when my power over the images

desigual crisis without any resources

without anything we could see I

do not know if you feel it in bread

there is a very threatening character in

fact

but at the same time what is

interesting is that commits a tragedy

can be uttered muniz and for example

can turn into something

of hallucinating beauty so I got

amused amused to take pictures and has

tried the sublime hours actually

to make them a little more threatening to

does if I know of dax action integer this

character actually after after the

phase of taking pictures I started

actually to build a high school of

build with the means of board

a kind of architectural of

models

as you can see I knew that

chairs create compositions of

six counselors actually I had really

children of me want to create a

kind of unlikely encounter between two

types of architects that we can see

on the pictures an architecture seeing

conventional have normal and a

another who’s right next who does not

is not used in fact

and that’s what I’m really interested in

it really is brought 1 1

a very absurd character compared

at construction after my return

in casablanca i had fun actually

to build to be inspired

deeply to redo everything

military heritage to make it into

does a kind of transcript in

made of metal form

I work with artisans for the

end pot in fact so I know what if

you actually come to create the onf a

created the link between this character

of architecture that I started to

to do in computer graphics is what

I was able to do afterwards with

real strong with real pictures

it’s always looking for something

who we do not know who

what he’s doing is

as if we are all his godfathers

night light that erases memory and

that we are touching all actually

everyone is touched by this virus

and how are we gonna go

review those objects that surround us these

architectures that surrounds us it’s

almost the same thing that interests me

when you can see in fact always

looking for a very aesthetic

aesthetic of fast if you want

so by finalizing the monolith actually

as chance does things in fact

I was taking photos

there were actually people there who are

going through and I got

really said so stupid if we’re really

in a post apocalyptic era and that

there are few left in fact

that they are there natives going on

move I do not know this spaceship

where is this form who is who who

completely absurd

after I kept the same way of

to work, that is, to remake as soon as

during the architecture but its

material actually you just change the

material just keep the elements of

construction as a kind of design

of the architect and make the

light ie how can I

to arrive with with these elements there to

give a spiritual aspect talk about the

viet or talk about the lack of languages

spoken of things finally

so that’s after how also actually

I often ask myself the question

that’s architecture is an art or

not because in fact before doing the

Gallery

my dream was to make

architecture but since I was told that

we were in recurve

I applied for school is

terrorized and allart later

in fact six years after I got

found doing some

interventions in schools

of architecture and to say to

students that here if I’m with

you now what because I

submits actually it’s because this

was not the right profile to do

the architected

but paradoxically I consume neither

always to make the same obsession with

crazy way affair

the architectured but really of my

way and after that it’s me

who keeps playing and dreaming

and to dream without mercy

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