Travel with icing sugar.

Travel with icing sugar.

If asked if you can go to China with a concrete block and paraffin, to wander in a square in Moscow -15 ° with icing sugar, or to hear the waves on a beach with a single sheet of paper, answer yes. It just demonstrated that the third-year students in design space.

The proposed subject during the course of the model was belvedere.


Unlike a typical project where one part of the environmental analysis to arrive at a finite space by integrating technical constraints (I'm short ...), the students began by implementing a technical principle, the overhang on a viewing free of any context. The challenge was proposed to achieve a maximum range on a cardboard construction, composed of parts tangram, All without bonding.

After a job analysis and composition, they were asked to imagine the world that went with it. A large mock-up work and experiments on the matter led to transcribe very different worlds through the writings of personal and sensitive.

"Beach", Lucy Harrington

"Mount Rushmore", Claire Boutroux

"Craters" Laura Rosello

To do this, were used: cardboard, glue and concrete cell, but also, paraffin, sugar, talc, ground glass, ash, charcoal, cotton thread, of steel wool, thyme, parsley, chocolate, pink pepper, pepper ... among others.

"Crevasse", François Aubret