Bernard Tschumi Parc De La Villette Paris
Tired of the old idea of a park tschumi wished to design the largest discontinuous building in the world.
Bernard tschumi parc de la villette paris. The park strives to strip down the signage and conventional representations that have infiltrated architectural design and allow for the existence of a non place. Bernard tschumi s engagement with la villette began with his participation in the unproductive first competition of 1976 his first bid to return to a built world after years of teaching and theoretical speculation. Bernard tschumi designed the parc de la villette with the intention of creating a space that exists in a vacuum something without historical precedent. Le programme du parc de la villette prévoyait une vaste concentration d activités diverses culturelles pédagogiques sportives de loisirs sur un site de 55 hectares.
Construit sur le site d un ancien abattoir et d un marché au bétail il fait partie d un projet urbain ambitieux regroupant autour du parc une cité de la musique et un musée des sciences et technologies. The 135 acre site is organized spatially through a grid of 35 points. Le projet du parc de la villette à paris de bernard tschumi est certainement l un des projets de paysage déconstructivistes les plus aboutis de la fin du xxe siècle. Parc de la villette in paris was the first major landscape design to draw upon deconstructionist philosophy.
Deconstructive architect bernard tschumi invited jacques derrida to collaborate with fellow architect peter eisenman for the parc de la villette competition in paris. Abattoir slaughterhouse at la villette the competition s winner bernard tschumi used his design as a way to respond to the trials of the contemporary city. Parc de la villette is designed with three principles of organization which tschumi classifies as points lines and surfaces. It was the result of a competition won by bernard tschumi.
Of restaurants art workshops music pavilions recreation facilities and gardens as well as 70 000 sq ft of galleries and bridges and 70 acres of landscaping. The park has 186 000 sq ft. The parc de la villette is one of the largest parks in paris designed by french architect bernard tschumi it has a total area of 125 acres.