>The design

The ArchiLab design is a virtual device which is printed on the spot. A grid has been arbitrarily applied to all the buildings, running through the different exhibition levels and defining both the exhibition spaces and the visitor circuits. Each architect has at his disposal an area of about 325 sq. ft., staked out by specific marking on the floor. Each one of these "surface-units" has the same colour scheme (yellow and blue for ArchiLab 2000). Within this area, the architects install, arrange, and show one or more projects, in the form of maquettes, plans, videos, writings, etc. The linear arrangement of these "surface-units" links the areas together, while offering each team a specific space for its use.

 

>Multimedia Centre

In addition to consulting the ArchiLab website, a multimedia centre will present architectural software as well as the most significant works made possible by them (Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, for example). This presentation will make it possible to differentiate the digital tools used by architects in their various special ways, and assess both their limitations and their broader field of application. How do these software packages affect the architect's production? These different types of software also show us the complex gamut of architectural developments which they partly foreshadow. Marco Brizzi is in charge of this selection.