Architects:BUREAU

Area:24 m²

Year:2022

Photographs:Dylan Perrenoud

Lead Architects:Daniel Zamarbide, Carine Pimenta, Galliane Zamarbid

Concept Design: Daniel Zamarbide, Carine Pimenta, Jolan Haidinger

Project Execution: Carine Pimenta, Jolan Haidinger, Laëtitia Chauveau, Malak Abdelhady

Construction Supervision: Daniel Zamarbide, Galliane Zamarbide

Publication Drawings: Malak Abdelhady, Rui Da Silva

City: Le Chenit

Country: Switzerland

Plaster, the extracted form of gypsum, essentially composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, appears as a good figuration of the BUREAU’s general attitude towards architecture. If we were to define ourselves as minor architects, following Jill Stoner’s book «Towards a minor architecture», working with what is considered a minor material seems quite d'à-propos. It is one that has been utilized to prefigure and anticipate masterpieces in the numerous “galéries des plâtres” around the world, fabricating figurative positive molds of definite sculptures, forever “graved in stone”. The plaster seems more malleable, elastic, and fragile.