Cinematic Playground

An exhibition as a playground to be physically experienced

A playground considered as a critical review of Bernard Tschumi’s concept of Folies in Parc de La Villette.

What if the use of the space, of the architectural functions of the space is denied by the architecture itself? The exhibition shows the architectural space which instead of being a container or a display exhibits its own “denied functions”, the building itself becomes the object to observe and experience (or not).

Tschumi did some cinematic studies and he said that Parc de la Villette is conceived as a cinematic promenade. He suggested that “the reading of a dynamic architectural space does not depend merely on a single frame but on a succession of frames or spaces”. More in detail, excerpts from Manhattan transcripts demonstrate a tripartite relationship among the spaces of the architecture, the vectors of the movement, and the event or action. Tschumi’s hypothesis was that architecture could be defined, and therefore dissociated, through three elements: space, movements (movement of bodies in space), and finally the event, the use.