/ CHARETTE /

Before getting involved in specific projects – the main issue of which will remain the climb to the mountain pasture and therefore mobility – we opted for a project capable of involving and bonding the group. It was by surveying the area together that bonds were forged, and through collective effort that affinities were built. Using an old cart as a base, we have created a mobile base for exploring the Alps and its trails. The cart contains everything you need: an orientation table, a supply of food and drink, small writing, measuring and craft equipment: all the “means to transport” so that everyone can encounter space through the body and the eye.

/ ECHELLE /

The boundaries that structure landscapes, beyond their representational, graphic and compositional value, are present right on the ground. These boundaries both hinder and enrich the journey: a precipice provides a panoramic viewpoint, the banks of a torrent offer the freshness of its waters. These obstacles can take many forms and vary in proportion. Gorges and ridges are of the sublime order, disproportionate and impassable without infrastructure.

On a human, corporeal scale, the barriers established to structure fields and pastures also impose a pedestrian route: openings are laid out according to a hiking map and precise graphic codes are established. These paths are marked out not only to lead the walker to safety, but also to structure the territory according to ecological, economic and political constraints. This is the kind of boundary the project addresses.

The ladder is designed to be carried throughout a walk. It can be used in a variety of contexts to cross stone walls, barbed wire and electrified fences. The ladder can be used in a variety of contexts to cross stone walls, barbed wire or electrified fences. Crossing these obstacles is no longer a matter of looking at them, but of moving through them and setting up a specific device – one that overcomes or crosses them.

With Collective GALTA and Tunzala Aliyeva as part of the European Architecture Student Assembly, EASA Switzerland 2020.