Studio - NOMADIC BOUTIQUES
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Studio - NOMADIC BOUTIQUES
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Studio - NOMADIC BOUTIQUES
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Studio - NOMADIC BOUTIQUES
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Studio - NOMADIC BOUTIQUES
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Studio - NOMADIC BOUTIQUES
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Intermede - F.Rodriguez, A.Dondey, T.Felix, M.Glassey
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Intermede - F.Rodriguez, A.Dondey, T.Felix, M.Glassey
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Intermede - F.Rodriguez, A.Dondey, T.Felix, M.Glassey
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Intermede - F.Rodriguez, A.Dondey, T.Felix, M.Glassey
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Myriapoda - A.Van Gaderen, A.Vandeabeele, A.Miskufova, S.Golaz
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Myriapoda - A.Van Gaderen, A.Vandeabeele, A.Miskufova, S.Golaz
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Myriapoda - A.Van Gaderen, A.Vandeabeele, A.Miskufova, S.Golaz
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Myriapoda - A.Van Gaderen, A.Vandeabeele, A.Miskufova, S.Golaz
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Spazio Riviera - J.Troilo, C.Kocis, T.Frey, J.Cornaz
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Spazio Riviera - J.Troilo, C.Kocis, T.Frey, J.Cornaz
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Spazio Riviera - J.Troilo, C.Kocis, T.Frey, J.Cornaz
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Spazio Riviera - J.Troilo, C.Kocis, T.Frey, J.Cornaz
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2-4-8 - M.Laville, M.Bunyen, I.Schupp, C.Bricheux, M.Pomorski, A.Schule
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2-4-8 - M.Laville, M.Bunyen, I.Schupp, C.Bricheux, M.Pomorski, A.Schule
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2-4-8 - M.Laville, M.Bunyen, I.Schupp, C.Bricheux, M.Pomorski, A.Schule
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2-4-8 - M.Laville, M.Bunyen, I.Schupp, C.Bricheux, M.Pomorski, A.Schule
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Studio - NOMADIC BOUTIQUES

February 2022

Studio tutor: Leonid Slonimskiy (KOSMOS Architects)
Assistant: Bertrand Van Dorp (RVDA Architectes)
Booklet 

The Nomadic Boutiques studio looks at the small-scale commercial street architecture such as traditional kiosks, food stalls, trucks, portable systems, temporary platforms and all possible varieties of moveable and transformable buildings that appear all around the world. Using the knowledge resulting from research on these Boutiques, the studio continues with a prototype, a kiosk for the Grand Théâtre de Genève, which will be placed in the lobby of the newly renovated historical theatre building.

These seemingly insignificant structures, which usually appear in the cities anonymously, out of need, and which are not even really considered by the majority of the population as architecture, actually have a very important role in the life of the city. This studio focuses on their vernacular design and explores how their various typologies develop as a reaction to different social, economic, legal and weather constraints. Documentation on these ‘nomadic boutiques’ is particularly interesting since (as in the case of most vernacular structures) there is almost none. Besides their social role, students research the technological and material aspect of these structures. How do they achieve maximum effect with minimum means? How do they react to ever-changing urban conditions? Situated somewhere between architecture and furniture, these structures are in direct relationship with the human body – another factor that affects their smart vernacular engineering. Students separate the so-called ‘hardware’, the core structure of Nomadic Boutiques, from the ‘software’, their ephemeral content: food, clothes, services etc.

At the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the goal of is to go further and create an urban activator that is smart, flexible and multifunctional. Work on the prototype takes place in close relationship with various theatre workshops and artisans: metal, wood, textile specialists, and shoe- and costume-makers. This ‘nomadic boutique’ will become an interface, connecting traditionally high theatre culture with the contemporary urban fabric of Geneva.

 

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