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Our 5th stop is at Coci Studio (Lausanne, CH + UK) alongside Camile Bagnoud.
Architecture and storytelling, what a beautiful duo. Camile call’s is “joyful architecture”, actually, that’s how they’ve named the project for the place they work at “Office for joyful architects”.
“Joyful architecture is an architecture for everyone (humans and non-humans). It’s made of strong patterns, bold colours, generous roofs, welcoming spaces…all those elements put together. At the end, everybody is free to feel this space as joyful or not but this is our way to see joyful architecture”.
It’s about giving an opportunity to every element, to make them prouder, more independent, to give them more importance. ”Even if they are there just for their function.”
On one hand, “we are in an era where we cannot have any surplus anymore in architecture”. On the other hand…architecture is about that surplus as she confesses: “we work with references like an accumulation of lot of images, maybe too many. (…) Yes it’s a combination between drawings, models, story telling, sometimes, built projects. All together they do architecture, to our eyes.”
"How can we combine the economy of means and ornament at the same time?” That is very much what we talk about in this episode. Gladly, a very superficial conversation.
Guest: Camile Bagnoud - Coci Studio (Lausanne, CH + UK)
Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal)
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