Christian Hauvette, the winner of the Grand Prix d’Architecture in 1991, likes to define himself as an architect-mechanic. He has formulated the idea that an architecture project is a mechanism that produces a machine.
Of all the buildings he has designed, it is the Martinique Education Authority offices in Fort de France that best embodies this conception. Two hundred people work in this office building designed to operate entirely without electrical air conditioning. The whole architectural concept is tailored to promote natural ventilation. The Wind Box is a machine for domesticating the trade winds that blow across the island – a complex aerodynamic machine, a totally porous building through which the wind passes.
THE WIND BOX
un film de Stan Neumann - ArchitectureChristian Hauvette, the winner of the Grand Prix d’Architecture in 1991, likes to define himself as an architect-mechanic. He has formulated the idea that an architecture project is a mechanism that produces a machine.
Of all the buildings he has designed, it is the Martinique Education Authority offices in Fort de France that best embodies this conception. Two hundred people work in this office building designed to operate entirely without electrical air conditioning. The whole architectural concept is tailored to promote natural ventilation. The Wind Box is a machine for domesticating the trade winds that blow across the island – a complex aerodynamic machine, a totally porous building through which the wind passes.
Christian Hauvette, the winner of the Grand Prix d’Architecture in 1991, likes to define himself as an architect-mechanic. He has formulated the idea that an architecture project is a mechanism that produces a machine.
Of all the buildings he has designed, it is the Martinique Education Authority offices in Fort de France that best embodies this conception. Two hundred people work in this office building designed to operate entirely without electrical air conditioning. The whole architectural concept is tailored to promote natural ventilation. The Wind Box is a machine for domesticating the trade winds that blow across the island – a complex aerodynamic machine, a totally porous building through which the wind passes.
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- Directed by
- Stan Neumann
- Collection
- Architectures
- Year
- 1999
- Genre
- Architecture
- Editing
- Stan Neumann
- Author
- Stan Neumann
- Photography
- Ned Burgess
- Sound
- Olivier Schwob
- Producer
- Les Films d'Ici
- Partners
- La Sept Arte, Centre Pompidou & Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication DGP
- Length
- 26'
- ISAN
- 000000019CE20010400000000P
- International sales
- Arte Distribution
- Sub title
- Christian Schiaretti - The Martinique Education Authority offices
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