WEBVTT 00:36.536 --> 00:41.541 LABOR is an ephemeral and experimental laboratory at the crossroads of art and urban planning. 00:41.541 --> 00:47.547 By 2050, more than 75% of the world's population will live in urban areas. In Switzerland, as elsewhere, we must densify from within. 00:47.547 --> 00:53.553 Faced with these challenges, LABOR explores the potential these urban centers, seeking alternative approaches building our cities. 01:12.572 --> 01:16.076 Building is a cultural act. 01:16.076 --> 01:22.082 In reference to the temporary camp, the BIVOUAC exhibition questions the often lasting and definitive character of buildings. 01:22.082 --> 01:28.088 It questions the rules, habits and processes involved in the development and creation of our cities. 01:32.092 --> 01:37.597 Awaiting profound transformations, the former ¨Rasude¨ logistics building becomes a temporary stage of life, creation and exhibition. 01:37.597 --> 01:43.103 Artists and architects are invited to think outside of the restrictive and standardized constraints and norms 01:43.103 --> 01:48.108 and to explore more spontaneous forms of creating the urban space. 02:04.124 --> 02:08.086 We're beneath several megatons of concrete, 02:08.086 --> 02:11.589 walls of extremely oversized thickness. 02:11.589 --> 02:17.011 It's a kind of evidence, a remnant of a past period. 02:17.762 --> 02:20.014 There's also something very playful about all this. 02:20.014 --> 02:23.268 Ending up down here and exploring this building. 02:23.268 --> 02:27.021 It's what motivated our thought process 02:27.021 --> 02:32.277 and the desire to bring people together, to discover a closed off place 02:32.277 --> 02:36.531 and then figure out what to do with it and what to make of all this. 02:40.368 --> 02:43.079 La Rasude is the visible part 02:43.079 --> 02:46.166 of a massive underground infrastructure. 02:46.749 --> 02:48.918 Unlike an apartment building, 02:48.918 --> 02:52.046 it's connected to a vast and complex network. 02:52.046 --> 02:55.592 We discovered these secluded, hidden spaces, 02:55.592 --> 02:59.179 that play an inherent role in the making of a city. 03:22.202 --> 03:24.037 This is purely what is visible. 03:24.037 --> 03:26.998 Everything that could be measured by hand 03:26.998 --> 03:29.918 with just a small laser and a tape measure. 03:29.918 --> 03:32.545 500 pieces. 03:39.636 --> 03:42.180 There's some pretty crazy stuff going on in this place. 03:42.180 --> 03:44.599 So many scale differences. 03:44.599 --> 03:48.603 We came to realize that these concrete posts 03:48.603 --> 03:52.357 and even the concrete boomerang supporting the terrace, 03:52.357 --> 03:56.903 are disproportionate compared to everything else. 04:23.137 --> 04:25.139 I like places like these. 04:25.139 --> 04:27.642 Places that are a bit hybrid, a bit broken 04:27.642 --> 04:29.894 and that have lived through a lot. 04:30.478 --> 04:33.106 We were interested in the basements, 04:33.106 --> 04:36.734 at the lowest level of the building. 04:49.122 --> 04:51.874 We wanted to probe these areas 04:51.874 --> 04:54.294 searching for traces and scars, 04:54.294 --> 04:57.505 using a special film roll from after the Second World War 04:57.505 --> 05:00.633 initially meant for pulmonary x-rays. 05:06.055 --> 05:08.141 We were also very sensitive 05:08.141 --> 05:09.892 to the way they spoke to us about this place 05:09.892 --> 05:12.312 of which we could only grasp a rough idea 05:12.312 --> 05:16.024 or a vague impression that sparked our fantasy. 05:37.211 --> 05:39.255 You sometimes enter a space, 05:39.255 --> 05:41.966 maybe because, there was something that you liked about it. 05:41.966 --> 05:45.053 but from there, you suddenly discover many other worlds. 05:45.053 --> 05:48.681 I think that's exactly what happened with this place. 05:48.681 --> 05:53.811 In fact, it totally surpassed what had I imagined... 05:53.811 --> 05:56.397 as far as my involvement, my working hours, 05:56.397 --> 05:59.692 the commitment that I was going to give to this art piece. 06:08.743 --> 06:11.496 Regarding my work with ceramics, 06:11.496 --> 06:14.374 I wanted to make a shift 06:14.374 --> 06:18.503 where I was no longer going to use new materials. 06:18.503 --> 06:21.923 I wanted to recover tiles 06:21.923 --> 06:24.717 that had already been used. 06:50.451 --> 06:52.745 Every week, we discover a new space. 06:52.745 --> 06:54.330 It's like a molehill. 06:54.330 --> 06:56.124 You see a hole, you crawl in it 06:56.124 --> 06:58.418 but then you realize that it's a whole network, 06:58.418 --> 07:03.423 a mesh of pipes, and underground connections. 07:03.423 --> 07:06.008 And then little by little, 07:06.008 --> 07:08.553 we began to descend, 07:08.553 --> 07:12.974 going through multiple layers into these underground passages. 07:13.641 --> 07:15.685 Ultimately, there's almost nothing on the surface. 07:15.685 --> 07:20.106 The whole project evolved deeper and deeper into the building. 07:45.798 --> 07:48.676 There is a whole pneumatic system that is no longer in use today. 07:48.676 --> 07:50.511 We imagine that they used the pressure of the machines 07:50.511 --> 07:54.682 to send, to pulse, messages through the system. 07:54.682 --> 07:57.852 It's a vast pipe network that goes all the way to the MCBA, 07:57.852 --> 08:00.688 which goes up to the Saint-François post office. 08:05.193 --> 08:07.069 We really like this kind of system, 08:07.069 --> 08:10.031 and we find it interesting to magnify these technical installations, 08:10.031 --> 08:13.868 to reuse these apparent circuits. We find them quite beautiful. 08:13.868 --> 08:17.747 There is a certain beauty to these technical, industrial elements. 08:43.272 --> 08:44.774 It's important to keep 08:44.774 --> 08:49.237 technical, industrial and logistical locations right in the city center, 08:49.237 --> 08:51.447 otherwise, we're just pushing them to the outskirts. 08:51.447 --> 08:55.493 We end up creating container-like non-cities. 08:55.493 --> 08:57.495 For me, it's not a good vision for the city. 08:57.495 --> 09:00.456 It's a shame that these places thend to disappear. 09:19.392 --> 09:21.561 This place has incredible potential. 09:21.561 --> 09:22.520 It's breathtaking 09:22.520 --> 09:24.438 It grasps your interest in a place 09:24.438 --> 09:26.816 that was active and alive before. 09:26.816 --> 09:30.361 It's really about changing one's point of view 09:30.361 --> 09:34.156 and rediscovering things that were in front of you all along. 10:02.893 --> 10:06.230 We have this deeper desire 10:06.230 --> 10:08.107 to question the site, its potential, 10:08.107 --> 10:11.193 and to show that we can modify a function. 10:11.193 --> 10:14.196 We can modify a space 10:14.196 --> 10:17.366 and give it a new meaning and new usage. 10:17.366 --> 10:20.328 To perhaps focus on what is already there 10:20.328 --> 10:24.081 and then see how, with intelligent actions, we can modify it. 10:35.343 --> 10:37.678 The architecture of reuse. 10:37.678 --> 10:42.099 A field of work that is currently completely under-considered 10:42.099 --> 10:44.894 because we build entirely in concrete 10:44.894 --> 10:48.272 and it's quite difficult to reuse concrete 10:48.272 --> 10:51.442 because it's a kind of inert mass. 10:54.570 --> 10:59.075 To see waste as building substance. 11:57.216 --> 11:59.552 It's not just an exhibition. 11:59.552 --> 12:03.556 It's creating opportunities for testing 12:03.556 --> 12:08.602 to avoid repeating mistakes at a large-scale 12:08.602 --> 12:10.730 that could have been tested beforehand. 12:10.730 --> 12:12.148 You're always learning. 12:12.148 --> 12:16.110 The day you stop learning, it's no longer interesting. 12:24.744 --> 12:27.913 It still remains a question of how we should go about 12:27.913 --> 12:30.666 opening up spaces for prototyping 12:30.666 --> 12:33.419 and for testing. 13:18.631 --> 13:21.592 He asked me what it was. 13:21.592 --> 13:24.595 I explained that it was a circle 13:24.595 --> 13:26.597 and that we were working hard to 13:26.597 --> 13:29.809 give it a circular shape. 13:29.809 --> 13:34.104 The bicycle wheel... Putting in spokes at several places... 13:34.104 --> 13:38.108 Directing the forces towards the center... 13:49.787 --> 13:54.333 It's has a bit of a performative dimension to it. 13:54.333 --> 13:57.044 It's relentlessness. 13:57.044 --> 14:00.673 I've always said that sculpture is linked to performance. 14:00.673 --> 14:02.842 You move a lot of material. 14:02.842 --> 14:07.304 It says a lot about the body, indirectly. 15:28.302 --> 15:31.305 I come every day, for an hour, 15:31.305 --> 15:33.724 to add a little bit of mortar each time 15:33.724 --> 15:37.686 so that the tent doesn't collapse, because I haven't reinforced it. 15:37.686 --> 15:40.940 When it comes to the production method, 15:40.940 --> 15:45.736 there's a kind of challenge between this hyper fragile structure 15:45.736 --> 15:48.614 and this material which evokes the total opposite 15:48.614 --> 15:51.825 being very heavy and super solid. 15:51.825 --> 15:54.286 I might want to cut it at some point. 15:54.286 --> 15:57.873 I haven't yet decided what will happen in the end. 16:27.569 --> 16:30.030 It's not every day that we can have access 16:30.030 --> 16:31.907 to train tracks and a place like this. 16:31.907 --> 16:36.954 It's a very rare opportunity to make something on rails. 16:45.879 --> 16:47.923 My work involves a lot of improvisation. 16:47.923 --> 16:50.384 I reuse materials as much as possible. 16:50.384 --> 16:52.636 I’m rarely finished, it can always be improved. 16:52.636 --> 16:54.722 You are your own master 16:54.722 --> 16:58.559 and you always have to plan a few steps ahead 16:58.559 --> 16:59.977 to anticipate problems 16:59.977 --> 17:02.021 and what you will need the next day. 18:23.102 --> 18:25.896 We’re not aiming for a final result, we're at an intermediate step 18:25.896 --> 18:28.690 of a more global study on the city. 18:36.323 --> 18:38.700 We need flexible spaces. 18:38.700 --> 18:40.744 That’s we’re we can get to work 18:40.744 --> 18:43.539 and experiment. 18:43.831 --> 18:46.875 Today, these spaces do not exist. 18:46.875 --> 18:48.710 They are governed and subjected 18:48.710 --> 18:50.963 to exactly the same laws, the same regulations 18:50.963 --> 18:56.093 as if we were doing something rigid and definitive.