(F) Platane Berès graduated in 1990 from the Paris-Belleville School of Architecture under Henri Ciriani, and has been working in Paris since then. With an attentive eye on the roles delegated to imagery, and on what he calls "sign-objects" which appeared with the digital technologies, he is exploring the influence of animated images on the design and reception of projects. To borrow his own words: "Inhabiting is no longer being in a relationship, be it head on, static or relational, between an absolute exterior and an interior. These days, inhabiting means being in transit in a continuous space between a more exterior previous event and the more interior next event itself." The Descamps project is a curved envelope defined by its profile, an inflection which is placed between a garden, to which it provides access, and a house of which it is the extension. The challenge here involves reformulating the interior character of this house which is limited by its narrowness. By reorganizing the interior--the house condenses all the various given household uses--the extension frames the "indeterminate" factor, thus coming across like the constantly renewed moment of coincidence of the wishes of these residents, in this way satisfying the "little bit more..." which it had to deal with. Platane Berès has designed two housing complexes in Paris. He also teaches at the Computer Science Laboratory at the Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris.

Platane Architecte
Berès (Platane) (1964)
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• Maison Descamps, extension 50 m2 esquisse