- “camouflage“, “equipped façade“, “membrane“, “tattoos“, “technique, the“
Contemporary architecture replaces the idea of façade with that of skin : an exterior layer mediating between the building and its environnement. Not a neutral elevation, but rather an active, informed membrane; communicative and in communication.
Rather than walls with holes, technical, interactive skins. Skins colonised by functional elements capable of housing installations and services; capable of receving and transmitting energies; but also capable of supporting other incorporated layers: overlapping rather than adhesive. Manipulated and/or temporary patches, eruptions, graphics or engravings; but also projected images. Colourful reversible motifs and virtual – digital – fantasies aimed at transforming the building into a authentic interface between individual and environment; and the façade, into an (inter)active screen, the frictional boundary between the building and a context which changes over time.
Tags: as6skin, Camouflage, Définition, equipped façade, membrane, tattoos, the technique
